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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
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transitive verb |
| inflections: |
generates, generating, generated |
| definition 1: |
to cause to be brought into being.
The human body generates heat.The farm uses a windmill to generate its own electricity.The news generated a great deal of excitement.Establishment of the factory will generate more jobs in the area.The lottery generates significant revenue for the state.- synonyms:
- beget, breed, create, engender, hatch, make, originate, procreate, produce, spawn
- similar words:
- account, conceive, develop, effectuate, found, fructify, give rise to, launch, provoke, start, yield
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| definition 2: |
to beget (offspring).
Laboratory mice exposed to the chemicals were no longer capable of generating offspring.- synonyms:
- beget, breed, engender, father, procreate, produce, sire, spawn
- similar words:
- fructify
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| related words: |
bear, breed, bring, create, deliver, determine, form, grow, induce, institute, make, originate, pick, procreate, produce, propagate, send, spawn |
adverb + (v.)generate
automatically, internally, randomly, spontaneously, thereby
(v.)generate
+ adverb
annually
(v.)generate
+ noun
amount,
carbon,
cash,
code,
controversy,
current,
debate,
dollar,
earnings,
electricity,
employment,
energy,
enthusiasm,
excitement,
export,
flow,
friction,
gain,
growth,
headline,
heat,
horsepower,
hydrogen,
hypothesis,
income,
interest,
kilowatt,
lift,
momentum,
output,
pollution,
power,
pressure,
profit,
publicity,
pulse,
quantity,
resentment,
response,
return,
revenue,
sales,
sequence,
signal,
solution,
steam,
stream,
surplus,
tension,
ton,
volume,
wave,
wealth
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The word generate
contains the following parts:
gen, gener
Latin and Greek
root
that means birth, origin, race, kind
  Example words:
abiogenesis, acrogen, androgen, anthropogenesis, congenital, degenerate, disingenuous, eugenics, gender, gene, genealogy, general, generalization, generate, generation, generator, generatrix, generic, generous, genesis, genetic, genius, genocide, genteel, gentleman, gentry, genuine, hydrogen, indigenous, ingenious, ontogeny, oxygen, polygenism, progeny
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, abnegate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, adjudicate, administrate, administrative, administrator, advocate, aerate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggravate, agitate, alienate, allocate, alternate, animate, annihilate, annotate, arrogate, aspirate, assimilate, associate, calibrate, capitulate, cerebrate, circulate, collaborate, collocate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, consummate, cooperate, coordinate, decapitate, decelerate, decerebrate, decimate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, derogate, desecrate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, dissimulate, dissociate, divagate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, elongate, elucidate, emasculate, emigrate, enervate, enunciate, equate, equivocate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, exfoliate, expurgate, fluctuate, formulate, generate, gradate, graduate, gyrate, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, incorporate, indoctrinate, innovate, interpellate, interrogate, irradiate, irrigate, legislate, liberate, locate, mediate, motivate, narrate, navigate, negate, nominate, obliterate, operate, orate, originate, ovulate, palpate, participate, placate, populate, prognosticate, proliferate, radiate, regulate, resonate, rotate, segregate, simulate, subjugate, terminate, vacate, validate, contraindicate
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