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generate
English
Etymology
From Latin gener?tus, perfect passive participle of gener? (“beget, procreate, produce”), from genus (“a kind, race, family”); see genus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d??n.?.?e?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d??n.?.e?t/
Verb
generate (third-person singular simple present generates, present participle generating, simple past and past participle generated)
- (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
- (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
- (transitive) To procreate, beget.
- (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
- (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
- 1883, Thomas Hardy, The Three Strangers
- Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.
- 1883, Thomas Hardy, The Three Strangers
Synonyms
- (to bring into being): create, spawn
Antonyms
- (to bring into being): annihilate, degenerate, extinguish
- (to produce as a result of a chemical or physical process): erase
Derived terms
- regenerate
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- generate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- generate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- green tea, renegate, teen-ager, teenager
Italian
Verb
generate
- second-person plural present of generare
- second-person plural present subjunctive of generare
- second-person plural imperative of generare
- feminine plural past participle of generare
Anagrams
- argentee, reagente
Latin
Participle
gener?te
- vocative masculine singular of gener?tus
generate From the web:
- what generates earth's magnetic field
- what generates ocean tides on earth
- what generates atp
- what generates energy for a cell
- what generates electricity
- what generates the most atp
- what generates wind
- what generates an action potential
generalize
English
Alternative forms
- generalise (non-Oxford British spelling)
Etymology
general +? -ize
Verb
generalize (third-person singular simple present generalizes, present participle generalizing, simple past and past participle generalized)
- To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
- To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
- 1795, William Nicholson, A Dictionary of Chemistry
- Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.
- 1795, William Nicholson, A Dictionary of Chemistry
- To derive or deduce (a general concept or principle) from particular facts.
- August 24, 1831, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Truth and Maxims
- A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts.
- August 24, 1831, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Truth and Maxims
Synonyms
- (speak in generalities): See also Thesaurus:generalize
Antonyms
- (speak in generalities): See also Thesaurus:specify
- (infer from specific cases): specialize
Derived terms
Related terms
- general
Translations
Portuguese
Verb
generalize
- first-person singular present subjunctive of generalizar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of generalizar
- first-person singular imperative of generalizar
- third-person singular imperative of generalizar
generalize From the web:
- what generalized anxiety disorder
- what generalized anxiety disorder feels like
- what's generalized anxiety
- what's generalized coordinate
- what generalized transduction
- what generalized seizure
- what generalized means
- what generalized system of preferences
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