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Grammar : Verb
Spell : jen-uh-reyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɛn əˌreɪt



Definition of generates

Origin :
  • c.1500, "to beget" (offspring), a back-formation from generation or else from Latin generatus, past participle of generare "to beget, produce" (see generation); originally "to beget;" in reference to natural forces, conditions, substances, etc., attested from 1560s. Related: Generated; generating.
  • verb produce, create
Example sentences :
  • Many a man both receives and generates who, somehow, cannot represent.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • It's your end, Colonel, that generates the heat, and Dutchy's end that does the burning.
  • Extract from : « Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York » by Lemuel Ely Quigg
  • Thus, by the rude agency of his hammer, he generates light and heat.
  • Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall
  • The exalted moment is the dynamo that generates the working energy.
  • Extract from : « The Life Radiant » by Lilian Whiting
  • The Gospel requires and generates not a legal, but an evangelical obedience.
  • Extract from : « The Parables of Our Lord » by William Arnot
  • It is the only visible change which changes no further; which generates and yet is not destroyed.
  • Extract from : « The Book Lovers' Anthology » by Various
  • It generates light: it transforms them into living light-bearers.
  • Extract from : « Bible Emblems » by Edward E. Seelye
  • He does not mean that Intellect (Νοῦς) generates or produces these principles.
  • Extract from : « Aristotle » by George Grote
  • Roughly you might say it generates and radiates like our brain wave.
  • Extract from : « The Kenzie Report » by Mark Clifton
  • The twin-soul is the cell that generates the creative force.
  • Extract from : « The Goddess of Atvatabar » by William R. Bradshaw

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