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generate

Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/

The English word “generate” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To bring into being; give rise to.
  2. To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
  3. To procreate, beget.
  4. To form a figure from a curve or solid.
  5. To appear or occur; be generated.

adjective

  1. Generated, not self-existent.

Etymology

From Latin generō (“beget, procreate, produce”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from genus (“a kind, race, family”, gener- in compounds) + -ō; see genus. Compare Italian generare, French générer (and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, gender (“engender, breed, copulate”)).

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