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Grammar : Verb
Spell : jen-uh-reyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɛn əˌreɪt



Definition of generating

Origin :
  • c.1500, "to beget" (offspring), a back-formation from generation or else from Latin generatus, past participle of generare "to beget, produce" (see generation); originally "to beget;" in reference to natural forces, conditions, substances, etc., attested from 1560s. Related: Generated; generating.
  • verb produce, create
Example sentences :
  • You will oppose these generating ideas to 'Atheism' and321 'Anarchy.'
  • Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
  • There are two ways of "generating" electricity on the car: 1.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
  • These, apparently, were generating current at an extremely high frequency.
  • Extract from : « The Black Star Passes » by John W Campbell
  • The water, however, does not move away from the generating source.
  • Extract from : « Aether and Gravitation » by William George Hooper
  • The generating idea, the word, was not only at the foundation of all these edifices, but also in the form.
  • Extract from : « Notre-Dame de Paris » by Victor Hugo
  • We are generating steam in a boiler which is already cankered with rust.
  • Extract from : « Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure » by Edward Carpenter
  • A device for generating electricity is called a dynamo (Fig. 152).
  • Extract from : « Mechanical Devices in the Home » by Edith Louise Allen
  • Properly speaking, the engine has nothing to do with generating steam.
  • Extract from : « Farm Engines and How to Run Them » by James H. Stephenson
  • The Serpollet system is a peculiar method of generating steam.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Modern Invention » by Archibald Williams
  • It appears to be produced by the generating of gas in a cavernous receiver.
  • Extract from : « Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume 28 » by Various

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