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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To bring into being; give rise to.
  • transitive verb. To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
  • transitive verb. To engender (offspring); procreate.
  • transitive verb. To form (a geometric figure) by describing a curve or surface.
  • transitive verb. To produce (a program) by instructing a computer to follow given parameters with a skeleton program.
  • transitive verb. In generative grammar, to construct (a sentence, for example) through the successive application of linguistic operations, rules, and conditions.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To beget; procreate; engender by sexual union.
  • To produce; cause to be; bring into life.
  • To cause; form; give origin to.
  • In mathematics, to give rise to, as to a geometrical figure; especially, to move so that the locus of the motion shall constitute (the figure specified): thus, a right line moving with one point fixed generates a conical surface.
  • To produce; evolve; as electricity, force, friction, gas, heat, light, velocity, etc.
  • In music, of a tone fundamental to a chord, to suggest or fix (the remaining tones of the harmony).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender.
  • transitive verb. To cause to be; to bring into life.
  • transitive verb. To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.
  • transitive verb. To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To bring into being; give rise to.
  • verb. To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
  • verb. To procreate, beget.
  • verb. To form a figure from a curve or solid.
  • verb. To appear or occur; be generated.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. give or supply
  • verb. make children
  • verb. produce (energy)
  • verb. bring into existence
  • Word Usage
    "Only a grammar containing both phrase structure and transformation rules, Chomsky argued, could generate a natural language ” ˜generate™ in the sense that by stepwise application of the rules, one could in principle build up from scratch all and only the sentences that the language contains."
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    die  
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    create  make  produce  
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