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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
generates, generating, generated |
| definition 1: |
to cause to be brought into being.
The human body generates heat.The farm uses a windmill to generate its own electricity.The news generated a great deal of excitement.Establishment of the factory will generate more jobs in the area.The lottery generates significant revenue for the state.- synonyms:
- beget, breed, create, engender, hatch, make, originate, procreate, produce, spawn
- similar words:
- account, conceive, develop, effectuate, found, fructify, give rise to, launch, provoke, start, yield
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| definition 2: |
to beget (offspring).
Laboratory mice exposed to the chemicals were no longer capable of generating offspring.- synonyms:
- beget, breed, engender, father, procreate, produce, sire, spawn
- similar words:
- fructify
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| related words: |
bear, breed, bring, create, deliver, determine, form, grow, induce, institute, make, originate, pick, procreate, produce, propagate, send, spawn |
The word generate
contains the following parts:
gen, gener
Latin and Greek
root
that means birth, origin, race, kind
  Example words:
gene, general, generate, generation, generator, generic, generous, genetic, genius, gentleman, genuine, hydrogen, indigenous, ingenious, oxygen
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, administrator, advocate, affiliate, aggravate, agitate, alternate, animate, annihilate, assimilate, associate, circulate, collaborate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, cooperate, coordinate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, emigrate, enunciate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, generate, graduate, illuminate, illustrate, incorporate, interrogate, irrigate, liberate, locate, narrate, navigate, nominate, operate, originate, participate, populate, radiate, regulate, rotate, segregate, terminate
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