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English
Etymology
From Latin generātus, perfect passive participle of generō (“beget, procreate, produce”), from genus (“a kind, race, family”); see genus.
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Verb
generate (third-person singular simple present generates, present participle generating, simple past and past participle generated)
- (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
The discussion generated an uproar.
1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 126:The Ecclesiastical Commission was generated by Sir Robert Peel and bore the marks of Peel’s personality; bureaucratic, capable and cold.
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
- (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat.
- (transitive) To procreate, beget.
They generated many offspring.
- (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
Rotating a circle generates a sphere.
- (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
1883, Thomas Hardy, The Three Strangers:Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.
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to bring into being
- Azerbaijani: törətmək
- Bulgarian: създавам (bg) (sǎzdavam), пораждам (bg) (poraždam)
- Catalan: generar (ca)
- Esperanto: generi
- Finnish: synnyttää (fi), herättää (fi)
- French: générer (fr)
- Galician: xerar (gl), criar (gl)
- Georgian: წარმოქმნა (c̣armokmna), წარმოება (c̣armoeba), შექმნა (šekmna), გენერირება (generireba)
- German: generieren (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: φύω (phúō)
- Hungarian: létrehoz (hu), teremt (hu)
- Italian: portare (it)
- Japanese: 生む (ja) (umu), 生み出す (ja) (umidasu), 生成する (ja) (seisei suru), 発生させる (ja) (hassei saseru)
- Latin: pariō (la)
- Manx: gien
- Polish: generować (pl) impf, wygenerować (pl) pf, stwarzać (pl) impf, stworzyć (pl) pf, tworzyć (pl) impf, wywołać (pl) pf
- Portuguese: gerar (pt)
- Romanian: genera (ro)
- Russian: порожда́ть (ru) impf (poroždátʹ), производи́ть (ru) impf (proizvodítʹ), генерировать (ru) (generirovatʹ)
- Slovak: generovať, vygenerovať
- Spanish: generar (es)
- Swedish: skapa (sv)
- Vietnamese: sinh ra (vi), gây ra, gây nên, đẻ ra
- Zazaki: afernen
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to produce as a result of a chemical or physical process
- Belarusian: генеры́раваць impf (hjenjerýravacʹ)
- Bulgarian: генерирам (bg) (generiram)
- Finnish: tuottaa (fi), kehittää (fi), synnyttää (fi)
- French: générer (fr)
- Galician: xerar (gl)
- Georgian: წარმოქმნა (c̣armokmna), გენერირება (generireba)
- Italian: generare (it)
- Japanese: 生む (ja) (umu), 生み出す (ja) (umidasu), 熾す (ja) (okosu), 生成する (ja) (seisei suru), 発生させる (ja) (hassei saseru)
- Manx: gien
- Maori: huri hiko (electricity), mahi hiko (electricity)
- Polish: wytwarzać (pl) impf, wytworzyć (pl) pf, generować (pl) impf, wygenerować (pl) pf
- Portuguese: gerar (pt)
- Romanian: genera (ro)
- Russian: генери́ровать (ru) (generírovatʹ)
- Slovak: generovať
- Spanish: generar (es), producir (es)
- Ukrainian: генерува́ти impf (heneruváty)
- Vietnamese: phát (vi), phát ra
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Further reading
- “generate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “generate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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Italian
Verb
generate
- inflection of generare:
- second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person plural imperative
- feminine plural past participle
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Latin
Participle
generāte
- vocative masculine singular of generātus
Spanish
Verb
generate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of generar combined with te