generate
/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.22 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Generated, not self-existent.
Example Sentences
- "The discussion generated an uproar."
- "The Ecclesiastical Commission was generated by Sir Robert Peel and bore the marks of Peel’s personality; bureaucratic, capable and cold."
- "In the last 20 minutes Athletic began to generate the sort of pressure of which they are capable, but by then it was far too late: the game had begun to slip away from them as early as the seventh minute."
- "The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled."
- "“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” she said."
- "Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat."
Etymology
From Latin generō (“beget, procreate, produce”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from genus (“a kind, race, family”, gener- in compounds) + -ō; see genus. Compare Italian generare, French générer (and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, gender (“engender, breed, copulate”)).
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵenh₁-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/
- British English: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/