generatev.

Brit.

/ˈdʒɛnəreɪt/, U.S.

/ˈdʒɛnəˌreɪt/

Forms: 1500s– generate, 1600s generat.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin generāt-, generāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin generāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of generāre to beget, father, to produce, to create, to engender, arouse < gener- , genus stock, race (see genus n.) Compare Middle French generer , French générer (1518 in sense ‘to engender, produce’; c1200 in Old French in sense ‘to regenerate (a person) by the life-giving force of baptism’), Catalan generar (15th cent.), Spanish generar (first half of the 15th cent.), Italian generare (a1308). Compare earlier generate adj., and also earlier gender v.¹, engender v.

a. transitive. To bring into being by procreation; esp. to engender or conceive (offspring). Now historical and rare.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (transitive)]

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begeteOE

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engendera1325

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producea1513

procreatea1525

propagate1535

generate1552

product1577

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pullulate1602

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spawna1616

spawna1617

reproduce1650

propage1695

to make a baby1911

1552 [implied in: R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Generated, generatus, genitus. (at generated adj.)].

?1585 W. C. Aduentures Ladie Egeria sig. G3^v These two Children, generated by your royal seed, formed and fashioned in Egeriaes wombe.

1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks 75 The nineteenth day..Auspicious both to plant, and generate Both sons and daughters.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 76 in Justice Vindicated The person of the Son being only generated, the Fathers power can extend no further.

1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. xxxii. 126 Every mortal is generated, and therefore that which is not generated is not mortal.

1758 N. Robinson Christian Philosopher (new ed.) II. 118 It was his Duty to comply with his Maker, and to generate an Offspring in the Image of God.

1788 J. St. John Lett. from France II. li. 191 The Englishmen are generally stronger bodied than the French..and therefore one would think, should generate their offspring with more success.

1803 W. Taplin Sporting Dict. I. 290 Doubts have arisen..upon the question whether the fox and dog will generate an offspring.

1848 Cultivator Apr. 120/1 All domestic varieties of pigeon, breed readily with each other and generate a fertile offspring.

1994 Aquinas Rev. 1 11 As man generates, not just any haphazard thing, but man.

b. intransitive. To breed, reproduce. Also occasionally: to engage in reproductive activity, copulate. Now historical and rare.In quot. 1670 figurative: to proliferate.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (intransitive)]

teemOE

tidderOE

breedc1200

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fructifya1325

creasec1380

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (intransitive)] > copulate

to go to (the) bull (also cow, horse, etc.)a1393

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lime1555

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copulate1632

fere1632

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pair1908

mate1927

to saw a chunk off1961

1605 tr. Marcilius Ficinus in T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke xvii. sig. N If the elements and liuing things doe generate and beget, why doe not stones and mettalls beget?

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §758 Some Liuing Creatures generate but at certaine Seasons of the Yeare.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 189 An Horse or Bull may generate after castration, that is, from the stock..of seminall matter, already prepared and stored up in the Prostates or glandules of generation.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 160 Living Creatures which are said to generate, not when they generate their young, but their Seed.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 30 in Justice Vindicated The parents must be supposed to generate, before they can have a power or right of command.

1670 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. & Reflexions upon Psalms in Coll. Tracts (1727) 673 The good man..leaves an ample progeny of just and charitable actions which generate when he is dead.

1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 260 They [sc. whales] generate much like to our neat Cattle, and therefore they are termed Bull, Cow, and Calf.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 252 These fish generate in March and April.

1810 W. Hooper tr. C. A.-Helvétius Treat. Man (new ed.) I. ii. i. 93 Have we constantly seen animals generate by the coupling of the males with the females?

1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 198 Blood is blood which circulates, Life is life which generates.

1954 T. H. White tr. Bk. Beasts ii. 109 The females conceive without any assistance from the males and generate without conjunction.

a. transitive. To bring into existence (objects, substances, etc.). Usually in passive.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth

doeOE

makelOE

to bring forthc1175

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childc1350

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raise1402

spring?1440

upbringc1440

breed1526

procreate1546

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generate1556

product1577

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produce1587

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represent1601

effer1606

depromea1652

germinate1796

output1858

1556 T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie xxvi. sig. D.i^v Cocles neuer saw a bearde in coloure lyke to Juorye, because the phlegmaticke humour is not mightye to generate heares in coloure lyke.

1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick ii. xii. 253 This cannot be said to foment or preserve the same fire, but onely to generate new.

1738 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. xiii Monsters generated from the agitation of the sea.

1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 304 The certain consequence..will be, that maggots will be generated in such uncured parts [of stuffed birds].

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 238 A six-pound trout is a mere minnow to what the Rhone generates.

1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 36 Beyond the boundaries of his knowledge lay a region where rain was generated he knew not how.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. iii. 126 We were far less liberal in the use of sculpture, and we generated a purely moulded capital, which the French can scarcely be said to possess.

1984 M. Dittrick & D. Dittrick No Uncertain Terms 83 Such a cyclone, called a tropical cyclone, can generate 130-mile-per-hour winds.

2000 NewsScan Daily (Electronic text) 30 June I read about..abiogenesis, the belief that animals and insects can be spontaneously generated from dew, piles of old clothes, the slime in wells, and mud.

b. transitive. To produce from other substances or as the result of some process or action; to evolve (heat, gas, etc.); (in later use) spec. to produce (electric current) for practical use (cf. generating company n., generating station n. at generating adj. Compounds).

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the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth > yield or produce naturally

fruita1382

engendera1393

breeda1398

gendera1398

yielda1400

proferc1425

to bring out1545

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to send forth1626

propagate1699

pan1873

the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth > yield or produce naturally > generate heat or light

generate1664

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors v. f. 65 All agree, that all metalles are generated of sulphur.

1664 G. Havers tr. T. Renaudot et al. Gen. Coll. Disc. Virtuosi France lvii. 343 So by friction attenuating the parts it generates heat, and by the meeting of two bodies it makes sound.

1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. ii. 3 Heat the true beginner of life,..It kindleth all the qualities, generating the Light in them.

1705 H. Ditton Gen. Laws Nature & Motion ii. 121 The accelerating Quantity of the Vis Centripeta, is the Measure of it, with respect to the Velocity which it generates in a given Time.

a1727 I. Newton in E. Chambers Cycl. (1728) at Air Gunpouder generates Air by Explosion.

1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. iii. 59 They [sc. vegetable substances] undergo the effects of a slight combustion, which may generate an acid.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 202 The steam generated is carried to the place intended by means of pipes.

1838 W. W. Greener Sci. Gunnery 378 Generating 300 per cent. less friction than in the Whitworth rifle.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 4 Sept. 3/3 It is intended to supply a large proportion of power from a great power-house where electricity is generated.

1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 89 The average number of ‘daughters’ that each neutron generates.

1971 Sci. Amer. June 21/3 A laser is a device for generating or amplifying a beam of light whose waves are both monochromatic..and coherent.

2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Apr. 73 The roof-mounted solar photovoltaic panels generate electricity.

a. transitive. To cause, give rise to (an action, a condition, a feeling, etc.).

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the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)]

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timberc897

letc900

rearOE

doOE

i-wendeOE

workOE

makeOE

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to owe (also have) a wold (also on wield)a1325

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purchasec1330

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occasionate?c1450

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to bring about1480

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to bring to passc1513

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to work out1534

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1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois v. i. 57 O good my Lord forbeare In wreake of great sins, to engender greater, And make my loues corruption generate murther.

1649 W. Charleton in tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes Prolegomena sig. f3^v Reason doth not generate, in the understanding, any more, then a Caliginous or spurious Cognition.

1692 C. Gildon Nuncius Infernalis i. 7 Pride and Rapacious Desire, generates continual Feuds.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. ii. i. 30 The very reading of Treatises..of Melancholy has been apt to generate that Passion in the over-diligent and attentive Reader.

1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible 279 The belief of that miracle did not generate conviction that Jesus was the Christ.

1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames viii. 256 Offences were generated in consequence of the imperfections of the Law.

1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) iii. 124 The same inconsistency of the statutes..generated a lawsuit between commerce and revenue.

1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm (1867) i. 14 There are among us enthusiastic principles and practices..generated in a period of greater excitement than our own.

1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. iv. 66 The love of killing game generates a sincere wish to preserve it.

1900 Times 9 June 9/4 Insight is often taken to generate emotion, just as emotion is often taken to generate insight.

1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization vi. 213 It is in the capacity to generate and adapt moral force that man derives one of the most potent springs to social action.

2007 Guardian 22 Oct. (Media section) 2/3 The first phase of the digital revolution..generated demand for more programmes to fill the new digital channels' schedules.

b. transitive. To produce (income or profit).

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1819 Mass. Agric. Repository 1 Jan. 307 The profit of the system becomes so incorporated with the soil..as both to last long, and annually to generate profit upon profit, in a ratio outstripping the fecundity of compound interest.

1852 Times 11 Sept. 4/5 Property generating income with infallible certainty while its owner is asleep..is clearly more than equivalent to property which can only generate a like income under the anxious application of its possessor.

1943 Helena (Montana) Independent 21 Oct. 5/4 Many of the government corporations have the power to generate income.

1965 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 28 82 It is thus fairly certain that revenues..would be generated by imposing congestion charges on roads.

2006 Review (Rio Tinto) June 9/2 Miners bring into production marginal or subeconomic discoveries that generate sufficient cash to cover mining costs in the short term.

4. transitive. Mathematics. To form (a figure); spec. (of a point, line, or surface) to give rise to (a line, surface, or solid) by its notional motion. Cf. generating adj. 2, generator n. 2a.

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1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. xiv. 132 The straight Line which generated the Circle, is the Semi-diameter or Radius.

1699 J. Keill Refl. Theory Earth 117 If both the Ellipse and Circle were turned round the Axis AB there would also be a Spheroid and a Sphere generated.

1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §154. 181 The Properties of Lines generated by the Section of a Solid.

1788 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 134 Conic, or spirical sections are generated from a particular section of solids.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics vi. 57 When these properties of the ellipse and hyperbola, and of the solids generated by their revolution, were first discovered.

1866 R. A. Proctor Handbk. Stars 12 If the figure were to revolve about SP it would generate a sphere.

1949 A. K. Hamilton Castings 25 Although there are many variations of loam moulding, it is confined in general to those shapes that may be generated by the revolution of a plane surface about an axis.

2003 P. A. Foerster Precalculus with Trigonom. xii. 508 Rotating a hyperbola about one of its axes generates a hyperboloid.

a. transitive. Mathematics. To produce (a set or sequence of items) by specified operations or by the repeated application of rules to some initial items.

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1795 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. II. 272/1 Thus, to generate the series of cubes, or 3d powers, adding always 6, the common 3d difference gives the 2d differences 12, 18, 24, &c.; and these added to the 1st of the 1st differences 7, gives the rest of the said 1st differences.

1896 Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 3 115 If G is generated by substitutions of order p^α it is self-conjugate.

1903 B. Russell Princ. Math. xxiv. 200 The simplest method of generating a series is as follows.

1947 G. Birkhoff & S. MacLane Surv. Mod. Algebra vi. 138 The group G is cyclic if it contains some one element x whose powers exhaust G; this element is said to generate the group.

2002 E. Nuwere & D. Chanoff Hacker Cracker viii. 111 Each card company then has its own unique formula, or algorithm, that takes these three groups of numbers and performs a set of calculations on them, which generates an additional sequence of numbers.

b. transitive. Linguistics. Of a grammar or grammatical rule: to produce (a sentence or other unit, especially a well-formed one).

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1956 N. Chomsky in IRE Trans. Information Theory 2 113/1 We investigate several conceptions of linguistic structure to determine whether or not they can provide simple and ‘revealing’ grammars that generate all of the sentences of English and only these.

1968 J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics iv. 156 When we say that a grammar generates the sentences of a language we imply that it constitutes a system of rules..which..yield..a decision-procedure for any combination.

2001 T. A. Harley Psychol. Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 43 In his early work, Chomsky argued that sentences are generated by the operation of transformational rules on a deep-structure representation generated by phrase-structure rules.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	generate
释义	generateadj. Brit. /ˈdʒɛnərət/, U.S. /ˈdʒɛnərət/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s generat, late Middle English–1600s 1800s– generate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin generātus, generāre. Etymology: < classical Latin generātus, past participle of generāre generate v. Compare later generated adj. Now rare and historical. Generated, created, produced. Frequently as past participle. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced wroughtOE wroughtOE producta1398 createa1425 generate?a1425 gendered1502 naturate1509 shaped1540 generated1552 ingeneratea1572 concepted1662 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 8 Þe skyn forsoþ is mene..of al substaunce of generate [?c1425 Paris gendrede] & corrupt þingez. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 169^v (MED) What forsoþ is sanies & how it is generate..it is seid in apostemes & in vlcerez. a1500 Hymnal in R. S. Loomis Medieval Stud. in Memory G. S. Loomis (1927) 451 Of þe fadyr eternall generate By generacyone enarrable, In owr nature be comene incarnate. 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 282 Edwarde his sonne & heire first generate..Crouned was in all royall estate. 1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 42 Saynt Ebba which was in those dayes the mother of all nonnes, was generate of an whore, as were all her fathers chyldren besydes her. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 266 It noryssheth the fecunditie of thynges generate. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xi. 842 I was generate By Ioue himselfe. c1616 R. C. Certaine Poems in Times' Whistle (1871) 113 There is a soule, not generate, but infusde. 1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai i. 280 Nor such shadows they As those of waters generate, or of air. 1895 Q. Rev. Oct. 396 There is only one physician, of flesh and of spirit, generate and ingenerate, God in man. 1965 R. A. Norris God & World in Early Chrisian Theol. ii. 67 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. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). generatev. Brit. /ˈdʒɛnəreɪt/, U.S. /ˈdʒɛnəˌreɪt/ Forms: 1500s– generate, 1600s generat. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin generāt-, generāre. Etymology: < classical Latin generāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of generāre to beget, father, to produce, to create, to engender, arouse < gener- , genus stock, race (see genus n.) Compare Middle French generer , French générer (1518 in sense ‘to engender, produce’; c1200 in Old French in sense ‘to regenerate (a person) by the life-giving force of baptism’), Catalan generar (15th cent.), Spanish generar (first half of the 15th cent.), Italian generare (a1308). Compare earlier generate adj., and also earlier gender v.¹, engender v. 1. a. transitive. To bring into being by procreation; esp. to engender or conceive (offspring). Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (transitive)] kenc825 begeteOE strenec893 raisec1175 breeda1250 kenec1275 felefolda1300 engendera1325 tiddera1325 multiplyc1350 genderc1384 producea1513 procreatea1525 propagate1535 generate1552 product1577 kind1596 traduce1599 pullulate1602 traduct1604 progenerate1611 store1611 spawna1616 spawna1617 reproduce1650 propage1695 to make a baby1911 1552 [implied in: R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Generated, generatus, genitus. (at generated adj.)]. ?1585 W. C. Aduentures Ladie Egeria sig. G3^v These two Children, generated by your royal seed, formed and fashioned in Egeriaes wombe. 1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks 75 The nineteenth day..Auspicious both to plant, and generate Both sons and daughters. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 76 in Justice Vindicated The person of the Son being only generated, the Fathers power can extend no further. 1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. xxxii. 126 Every mortal is generated, and therefore that which is not generated is not mortal. 1758 N. Robinson Christian Philosopher (new ed.) II. 118 It was his Duty to comply with his Maker, and to generate an Offspring in the Image of God. 1788 J. St. John Lett. from France II. li. 191 The Englishmen are generally stronger bodied than the French..and therefore one would think, should generate their offspring with more success. 1803 W. Taplin Sporting Dict. I. 290 Doubts have arisen..upon the question whether the fox and dog will generate an offspring. 1848 Cultivator Apr. 120/1 All domestic varieties of pigeon, breed readily with each other and generate a fertile offspring. 1994 Aquinas Rev. 1 11 As man generates, not just any haphazard thing, but man. b. intransitive. To breed, reproduce. Also occasionally: to engage in reproductive activity, copulate. Now historical and rare.In quot. 1670 figurative: to proliferate. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (intransitive)] teemOE tidderOE breedc1200 felefolda1300 fructifya1325 creasec1380 multiplyc1390 engendera1400 fawn1481 procreate1576 propagate1601 generate1605 spawn1607 pullulate1618 populate1625 reproduce1650 prolify1660 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (intransitive)] > copulate to go to (the) bull (also cow, horse, etc.)a1393 entera1425 makea1522 lime1555 match1569 generate1605 copulate1632 fere1632 strene1820 pair1908 mate1927 to saw a chunk off1961 1605 tr. Marcilius Ficinus in T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke xvii. sig. N If the elements and liuing things doe generate and beget, why doe not stones and mettalls beget? 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §758 Some Liuing Creatures generate but at certaine Seasons of the Yeare. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 189 An Horse or Bull may generate after castration, that is, from the stock..of seminall matter, already prepared and stored up in the Prostates or glandules of generation. View more context for this quotation 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 160 Living Creatures which are said to generate, not when they generate their young, but their Seed. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 30 in Justice Vindicated The parents must be supposed to generate, before they can have a power or right of command. 1670 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. & Reflexions upon Psalms in Coll. Tracts (1727) 673 The good man..leaves an ample progeny of just and charitable actions which generate when he is dead. 1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 260 They [sc. whales] generate much like to our neat Cattle, and therefore they are termed Bull, Cow, and Calf. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 252 These fish generate in March and April. 1810 W. Hooper tr. C. A.-Helvétius Treat. Man (new ed.) I. ii. i. 93 Have we constantly seen animals generate by the coupling of the males with the females? 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 198 Blood is blood which circulates, Life is life which generates. 1954 T. H. White tr. Bk. Beasts ii. 109 The females conceive without any assistance from the males and generate without conjunction. 2. a. transitive. To bring into existence (objects, substances, etc.). Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth doeOE makelOE to bring forthc1175 farrow?c1225 childc1350 fodmec1390 raise1402 spring?1440 upbringc1440 breed1526 procreate1546 hatch1549 generate1556 product1577 deprompt1586 produce1587 spire1590 sprout1598 represent1601 effer1606 depromea1652 germinate1796 output1858 1556 T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie xxvi. sig. D.i^v Cocles neuer saw a bearde in coloure lyke to Juorye, because the phlegmaticke humour is not mightye to generate heares in coloure lyke. 1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick ii. xii. 253 This cannot be said to foment or preserve the same fire, but onely to generate new. 1738 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. xiii Monsters generated from the agitation of the sea. 1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 304 The certain consequence..will be, that maggots will be generated in such uncured parts [of stuffed birds]. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 238 A six-pound trout is a mere minnow to what the Rhone generates. 1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 36 Beyond the boundaries of his knowledge lay a region where rain was generated he knew not how. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. iii. 126 We were far less liberal in the use of sculpture, and we generated a purely moulded capital, which the French can scarcely be said to possess. 1984 M. Dittrick & D. Dittrick No Uncertain Terms 83 Such a cyclone, called a tropical cyclone, can generate 130-mile-per-hour winds. 2000 NewsScan Daily (Electronic text) 30 June I read about..abiogenesis, the belief that animals and insects can be spontaneously generated from dew, piles of old clothes, the slime in wells, and mud. b. transitive. To produce from other substances or as the result of some process or action; to evolve (heat, gas, etc.); (in later use) spec. to produce (electric current) for practical use (cf. generating company n., generating station n. at generating adj. Compounds). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth > yield or produce naturally fruita1382 engendera1393 breeda1398 gendera1398 yielda1400 proferc1425 to bring out1545 generate1563 produce1585 brooda1625 to send forth1626 propagate1699 pan1873 the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth > yield or produce naturally > generate heat or light generate1664 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors v. f. 65 All agree, that all metalles are generated of sulphur. 1664 G. Havers tr. T. Renaudot et al. Gen. Coll. Disc. Virtuosi France lvii. 343 So by friction attenuating the parts it generates heat, and by the meeting of two bodies it makes sound. 1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. ii. 3 Heat the true beginner of life,..It kindleth all the qualities, generating the Light in them. 1705 H. Ditton Gen. Laws Nature & Motion ii. 121 The accelerating Quantity of the Vis Centripeta, is the Measure of it, with respect to the Velocity which it generates in a given Time. a1727 I. Newton in E. Chambers Cycl. (1728) at Air Gunpouder generates Air by Explosion. 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. iii. 59 They [sc. vegetable substances] undergo the effects of a slight combustion, which may generate an acid. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 202 The steam generated is carried to the place intended by means of pipes. 1838 W. W. Greener Sci. Gunnery 378 Generating 300 per cent. less friction than in the Whitworth rifle. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 4 Sept. 3/3 It is intended to supply a large proportion of power from a great power-house where electricity is generated. 1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 89 The average number of ‘daughters’ that each neutron generates. 1971 Sci. Amer. June 21/3 A laser is a device for generating or amplifying a beam of light whose waves are both monochromatic..and coherent. 2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Apr. 73 The roof-mounted solar photovoltaic panels generate electricity. 3. a. transitive. To cause, give rise to (an action, a condition, a feeling, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] wieldeOE timberc897 letc900 rearOE doOE i-wendeOE workOE makeOE bringc1175 raisec1175 shapec1315 to owe (also have) a wold (also on wield)a1325 procurec1330 purchasec1330 causec1340 conform1377 performa1382 excite1398 induce1413 occasionate?c1450 occasionc1454 to bring about1480 gara1500 to bring to passc1513 encause1527 to work out1534 inferc1540 excitate?1549 import1550 ycause1563 frame1576 effect1581 to bring in1584 effectuatea1586 apport?1591 introduce1605 create1607 generate1607 cast1633 efficiate1639 conciliate1646 impetrate1647 state1654 accompass1668 to bring to bear1668 to bring on1671 effectivate1717 makee1719 superinduce1837 birth1913 1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois v. i. 57 O good my Lord forbeare In wreake of great sins, to engender greater, And make my loues corruption generate murther. 1649 W. Charleton in tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes Prolegomena sig. f3^v Reason doth not generate, in the understanding, any more, then a Caliginous or spurious Cognition. 1692 C. Gildon Nuncius Infernalis i. 7 Pride and Rapacious Desire, generates continual Feuds. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. ii. i. 30 The very reading of Treatises..of Melancholy has been apt to generate that Passion in the over-diligent and attentive Reader. 1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible 279 The belief of that miracle did not generate conviction that Jesus was the Christ. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames viii. 256 Offences were generated in consequence of the imperfections of the Law. 1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) iii. 124 The same inconsistency of the statutes..generated a lawsuit between commerce and revenue. 1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm (1867) i. 14 There are among us enthusiastic principles and practices..generated in a period of greater excitement than our own. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. iv. 66 The love of killing game generates a sincere wish to preserve it. 1900 Times 9 June 9/4 Insight is often taken to generate emotion, just as emotion is often taken to generate insight. 1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization vi. 213 It is in the capacity to generate and adapt moral force that man derives one of the most potent springs to social action. 2007 Guardian 22 Oct. (Media section) 2/3 The first phase of the digital revolution..generated demand for more programmes to fill the new digital channels' schedules. b. transitive. To produce (income or profit). ΚΠ 1819 Mass. Agric. Repository 1 Jan. 307 The profit of the system becomes so incorporated with the soil..as both to last long, and annually to generate profit upon profit, in a ratio outstripping the fecundity of compound interest. 1852 Times 11 Sept. 4/5 Property generating income with infallible certainty while its owner is asleep..is clearly more than equivalent to property which can only generate a like income under the anxious application of its possessor. 1943 Helena (Montana) Independent 21 Oct. 5/4 Many of the government corporations have the power to generate income. 1965 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 28 82 It is thus fairly certain that revenues..would be generated by imposing congestion charges on roads. 2006 Review (Rio Tinto) June 9/2 Miners bring into production marginal or subeconomic discoveries that generate sufficient cash to cover mining costs in the short term. 4. transitive. Mathematics. To form (a figure); spec. (of a point, line, or surface) to give rise to (a line, surface, or solid) by its notional motion. Cf. generating adj. 2, generator n. 2a. ΚΠ 1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. xiv. 132 The straight Line which generated the Circle, is the Semi-diameter or Radius. 1699 J. Keill Refl. Theory Earth 117 If both the Ellipse and Circle were turned round the Axis AB there would also be a Spheroid and a Sphere generated. 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §154. 181 The Properties of Lines generated by the Section of a Solid. 1788 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 134 Conic, or spirical sections are generated from a particular section of solids. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics vi. 57 When these properties of the ellipse and hyperbola, and of the solids generated by their revolution, were first discovered. 1866 R. A. Proctor Handbk. Stars 12 If the figure were to revolve about SP it would generate a sphere. 1949 A. K. Hamilton Castings 25 Although there are many variations of loam moulding, it is confined in general to those shapes that may be generated by the revolution of a plane surface about an axis. 2003 P. A. Foerster Precalculus with Trigonom. xii. 508 Rotating a hyperbola about one of its axes generates a hyperboloid. 5. a. transitive. Mathematics. To produce (a set or sequence of items) by specified operations or by the repeated application of rules to some initial items. ΚΠ 1795 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. II. 272/1 Thus, to generate the series of cubes, or 3d powers, adding always 6, the common 3d difference gives the 2d differences 12, 18, 24, &c.; and these added to the 1st of the 1st differences 7, gives the rest of the said 1st differences. 1896 Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 3 115 If G is generated by substitutions of order p^α it is self-conjugate. 1903 B. Russell Princ. Math. xxiv. 200 The simplest method of generating a series is as follows. 1947 G. Birkhoff & S. MacLane Surv. Mod. Algebra vi. 138 The group G is cyclic if it contains some one element x whose powers exhaust G; this element is said to generate the group. 2002 E. Nuwere & D. Chanoff Hacker Cracker viii. 111 Each card company then has its own unique formula, or algorithm, that takes these three groups of numbers and performs a set of calculations on them, which generates an additional sequence of numbers. b. transitive. Linguistics. Of a grammar or grammatical rule: to produce (a sentence or other unit, especially a well-formed one). ΚΠ 1956 N. Chomsky in IRE Trans. Information Theory 2 113/1 We investigate several conceptions of linguistic structure to determine whether or not they can provide simple and ‘revealing’ grammars that generate all of the sentences of English and only these. 1968 J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics iv. 156 When we say that a grammar generates the sentences of a language we imply that it constitutes a system of rules..which..yield..a decision-procedure for any combination. 2001 T. A. Harley Psychol. Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 43 In his early work, Chomsky argued that sentences are generated by the operation of transformational rules on a deep-structure representation generated by phrase-structure rules. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1425v.1552
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