Definition of "generate"

generate

/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present generates, present participle generating, simple past and past participle generated
1. (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
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  The Ecclesiastical Commission was generated by Sir Robert Peel and bore the marks of Peel’s personality; bureaucratic, capable and cold.
  1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 126
  In the last 20 minutes Athletic began to generate the sort of pressure of which they are capable, but by then it was far too late: the game had begun to slip away from them as early as the seventh minute.
  2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian
  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.
  2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
2. (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
3. (transitive) To procreate, beget.
4. (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
5. (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
  Quotations
  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.
  1883, Thomas Hardy, The Three Strangers

Definition of "generate"

generate

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