GENERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does generate mean? 

• GENERATE (verb)
  The verb GENERATE has 4 senses:

1. bring into existence

2. give or supply

3. produce (energy)

4. make (offspring) by reproduction

  Familiarity information: GENERATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they generate    ... he / she / it generates   
Past simple: generated   
Past participle: generated   
-ing form: generating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bring into existence

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

bring forth; generate

Context example:

The earthquake generated a tsunami

Hypernyms (to "generate" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "generate"):

come up (bring forth, usually something desirable)

develop (generate gradually)

bring on; induce (cause to arise)

free; liberate; release (release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

generation (a coming into being)

generation (a stage of technological development or innovation)

generative (having the ability to produce or originate)

generator (someone who originates or causes or initiates something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give or supply

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

generate; give; render; return; yield

Context example:

The estate renders some revenue for the family

Hypernyms (to "generate" is one way to...):

create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Verb group:

give; yield (cause to happen or be responsible for)

establish; give (bring about)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

generation (the production of heat or electricity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Produce (energy)

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more electricity

Hypernyms (to "generate" is one way to...):

create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "generate"):

fire (generate an electrical impulse)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

generation (the production of heat or electricity)

generative (having the ability to produce or originate)

generator (engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make (offspring) by reproduction

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

beget; bring forth; engender; father; generate; get; mother; sire

Context example:

John fathered four daughters

Hypernyms (to "generate" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

generation (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)

generation (a coming into being)

generation (group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent)

generative (producing new life or offspring)

 Context examples 

Rapamycin binds to the immunophilin FK Binding Protein-12 (FKBP-12) to generate a complex that binds to and inhibits the activation of the mammalian Target Of Rapamycin (mTOR), a key regulatory kinase.

(Nanoparticle Albumin-Bound Rapamycin, NCI Thesaurus)

Unlike other neurons, they can be generated from precursor cells in adults.

(Murine Olfactory Receptor Neurons, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Once fish start returning, they will start generating a healthier soundscape, which should, in turn, result in further recruitment of fish, says Radford.

(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)

Ultraviolet light, however, doesn't travel far enough into tissues to generate therapeutic radicals close to the tumor.

(Making higher energy light to fight cancer, National Science Foundation)

At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, an analysis was conducted using NASA's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) data generated during the period from January 17 to 25, 2018.

(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)

This process, called rectification, generates net DC electrical current.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers liken the charge to the static electricity generated when you rub a balloon on your hair.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

The precursor contains a signal peptide and 4 paired basic residues, putative proteolytic processing sites, indicating that the precursor may generate 3 peptides, including NMU located near the C terminus.

(Neuromedin U, NCI Thesaurus)

The tissue that generates and conducts electrical signals in the body.

(Nerve Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

Some mechanisms of disruption involve the effect of fusion proteins that are generated by chromosomal translocations on haematopoietic transcription factors.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)