 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
generate
verb
1: bring into existence; "The new manager generated a lot of
problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the
office" [syn: {bring forth}]
2: give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This
year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate
renders some revenue for the family" [syn: {render}, {yield},
{return}, {give}]
3: produce (energy); "We can't generate enough power for the
entire city"; "The hydroelectric plant needs to to
generate more electricity"
4: make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father
children but don't recognize them" [syn: {beget}, {get}, {engender},
{father}, {mother}, {sire}, {bring forth}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Generate \Gen"er*ate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Generated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Generating}.] [L. generatus, p. p. of generare to
generate, fr. genus. See {Genus}, {Gender}.]
1. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being
similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal
generates its own species.
2. To cause to be; to bring into life. --Milton.
3. To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process;
to produce; to cause.
Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle must
likewise generate milk. --Arbuthnot.
4. (Math.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the
motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "generate":
accomplish, achieve, amplify, author, bear, beget, breed,
breed true, bring about, bring forth, bring into being,
bring to effect, bring to pass, call into being, cause, charge,
coin, conceive, concoct, construct, contrive, cook up, copulate,
create, crossbreed, design, develop, devise, discover, do,
dream up, effect, effectuate, electrify, energize, engender,
establish, evolve, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, found,
frame, galvanize, gestate, get, get up, give being to,
give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to,
hatch, impose, improvise, inaugurate, inbreed, induce, initiate,
inspire, institute, introduce, invent, loop in, make, make do with,
make love, make up, manufacture, mature, mint, mother, mould,
multiply, muster up, occasion, originate, outbreed, parent,
perform, plan, plug in, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate,
provoke, put together, realize, reproduce, reproduce in kind,
set afloat, set on foot, set up, shock, short, short-circuit, sire,
spawn, step down, step up, stiffen, strike out, switch off,
switch on, think out, think up, turn off, turn on, whip up, work,
work up
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
generate vt. To produce something according to an algorithm or program
or set of rules, or as a (possibly unintended) side effect of the
execution of an algorithm or program. The opposite of {parse}. This term
retains its mechanistic connotations (though often humorously) when used
of human behavior. "The guy is rational most of the time, but mention
nuclear energy around him and he'll generate {infinite} flamage."
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
generate
To produce something according to an {algorithm} or program or
set of rules, or as a (possibly unintended) {side effect} of
the execution of an algorithm or program.
The opposite of {parse}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-06-15)
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