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Definition of generative in English: generativeadjective ˈdʒɛn(ə)rətɪv 1Relating to or capable of production or reproduction. the female reproductive system and its generative cycles Example sentencesExamples - It thus illuminates conceptual linkages in the model of generative fathering and provides feedback that can be used to refine such concepts.
- Each haploid cell undergoes a mitotic division to produce the generative and vegetative nuclei.
- It has seemed all but impossible to avoid the trap of an appropriationist logic of domination built into the nature/culture binarism and its generative lineage, including the sex/gender distinction.
- The genome contains instead a program of instructions for making the organism - a generative program - in which the cytoplasmic constituents of eggs and cells are essential players along with the genes.
- The degree of generative polyploidy is indicated using the letter ‘x’.
- One of them is generative learning, in which people produce words from cues instead of passively reading them.
- The consistent elements of the generative conception are that form is reproduced consistently.
- Continuing the consideration of the influence of the generative organs in the production of insanity, I come now to puerperal insanity.
- For conservationists, the concept of biodiversity encapsulates a vision of orderly flows, in which the generative capacity of the environment functions productively.
- They are both a product of and a facilitator for future generative relationships.
- In the silky upper layer the epiphytic organisms are most often attached to the generative and skeletal hyphae that make up this layer.
- As metaphors, they often speak of wombs, both as sexual and generative organs, or they may refer more abstractly to power points, voids which attract concentric lines of force and flow around themselves.
- In effect, the potential for generative activity as parents is a social opportunity that is allocated differently across diverse social contexts.
- The feel of place emerges from an ancestral aesthetic that is mediated by the generative and transposable effects of ancestral places.
- There are two possible methods by which this could arise: by generative reproduction via unreduced gametes or by somatic mutations.
- Here, I wish to situate discussion of Italian-Australian cultural production as part of the diverse generative dynamics organic to Australian multicultural culture.
2Denoting an approach to any field of linguistics that involves applying a finite set of rules to linguistic input in order to produce all and only the well-formed items of a language. Example sentencesExamples - Since the years of generative semantics, it has been claimed that the adverbs ‘again’ and ‘almost’ have access to different parts of verbal meanings.
- The whole question is fascinating, because generative linguists have not tended to be interested in this question.
- During this period, he became a leading figure in US linguistics, replacing a mechanistic and behaviouristic view of language with a mentalistic and generative approach.
- Functionalism as a linguistic approach is different from generative and cognitive approaches in that it makes no claim as to the cognitive reality of the mechanisms it proposes - that matter is irrelevant to its usefulness.
- In this case, I suspect that the explanation has more to do the psychological complexities of real-time composition than with the logic of grammar, generative or otherwise.
Synonyms fecund, fruitful, productive, high-yielding, prolific, proliferating, propagative
Derivatives noun After that perhaps twenty-year time period, a woman emerges fully into her new life of deeper uniqueness, generativity, nurturance, and creativity. Example sentencesExamples - If you feel that kind of generativity, you'll never be bored with life.
- I hope I need not say that special respect for generativity does not require stigmatizing the non-generative.
- Said differently, the aim is the process of generativity not the content of outcome.
- We celebrate our generativity and revel in being participants in an act of creation.
Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin generativus, from generare 'beget' (see generate). Definition of generative in US English: generativeadjective 1Relating to or capable of production or reproduction. the female reproductive system and its generative cycles Example sentencesExamples - Here, I wish to situate discussion of Italian-Australian cultural production as part of the diverse generative dynamics organic to Australian multicultural culture.
- It has seemed all but impossible to avoid the trap of an appropriationist logic of domination built into the nature/culture binarism and its generative lineage, including the sex/gender distinction.
- One of them is generative learning, in which people produce words from cues instead of passively reading them.
- As metaphors, they often speak of wombs, both as sexual and generative organs, or they may refer more abstractly to power points, voids which attract concentric lines of force and flow around themselves.
- For conservationists, the concept of biodiversity encapsulates a vision of orderly flows, in which the generative capacity of the environment functions productively.
- In the silky upper layer the epiphytic organisms are most often attached to the generative and skeletal hyphae that make up this layer.
- In effect, the potential for generative activity as parents is a social opportunity that is allocated differently across diverse social contexts.
- They are both a product of and a facilitator for future generative relationships.
- There are two possible methods by which this could arise: by generative reproduction via unreduced gametes or by somatic mutations.
- The consistent elements of the generative conception are that form is reproduced consistently.
- Each haploid cell undergoes a mitotic division to produce the generative and vegetative nuclei.
- The genome contains instead a program of instructions for making the organism - a generative program - in which the cytoplasmic constituents of eggs and cells are essential players along with the genes.
- Continuing the consideration of the influence of the generative organs in the production of insanity, I come now to puerperal insanity.
- It thus illuminates conceptual linkages in the model of generative fathering and provides feedback that can be used to refine such concepts.
- The feel of place emerges from an ancestral aesthetic that is mediated by the generative and transposable effects of ancestral places.
- The degree of generative polyploidy is indicated using the letter ‘x’.
2Denoting an approach to any field of linguistics that involves applying a finite set of rules to linguistic input in order to produce all and only the well-formed items of a language. Example sentencesExamples - During this period, he became a leading figure in US linguistics, replacing a mechanistic and behaviouristic view of language with a mentalistic and generative approach.
- The whole question is fascinating, because generative linguists have not tended to be interested in this question.
- In this case, I suspect that the explanation has more to do the psychological complexities of real-time composition than with the logic of grammar, generative or otherwise.
- Functionalism as a linguistic approach is different from generative and cognitive approaches in that it makes no claim as to the cognitive reality of the mechanisms it proposes - that matter is irrelevant to its usefulness.
- Since the years of generative semantics, it has been claimed that the adverbs ‘again’ and ‘almost’ have access to different parts of verbal meanings.
Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin generativus, from generare ‘beget’ (see generate). |