generate

verb

1. (transitive)To bring into being; give rise to.

   “The discussion generated an uproar.”

   “The Ecclesiastical Commission was generated by Sir Robert Peel and bore the marks of Peel’s personality; bureaucratic, capable and cold.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   ““If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” she said.”

2. (transitive)To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.

   “Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat.”

3. (transitive)To procreate, beget.

   “They generated many offspring.”

4. (transitive)To form a figure from a curve or solid.

   “Rotating a circle generates a sphere.”

5. (intransitive)To appear or occur; be generated.

   “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.”

adj

1. (not-comparable, rare)Generated, not self-existent.

   “It poses the thorny problem of the status of the Logos. Is he generate or ingenerate?.. Justin replies that he is generate—but in a special sense.”