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Generate LA-NY — Generate is a Los Angeles based entertainment studio that produces content for distribution across mediums, including the Internet, television, film, video games, mobile devices and books. The company completed a $6 million Series A round of… … Wikipedia
generate — gen‧e‧rate [ˈdʒenəreɪt] verb [transitive] 1. MANUFACTURING to produce energy or power: • These solar panels generate enough electricity to supply a home with all its energy requirements. • The water goes first to generate hydroelectric … Financial and business terms
generate — vb Generate, engender, breed, beget, get, sire, procreate, propagate, reproduce are comparable when they mean to give life or origin to or to bring into existence by or as if by natural processes. Generate, which means no more than this, is used… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Generate — Gen er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Generated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Generating}.] [L. generatus, p. p. of generare to generate, fr. genus. See {Genus}, {Gender}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Generate — may refer to:* CreateScience and math * Generate and test (trial and error) * Generating function, in math and physics * Generating primes * Generating set * Generating trigonometric tablesOther * Generated collection, in music theory *… … Wikipedia
generate — [jen′ər āt΄] vt. generated, generating [< L generatus, pp. of generare, to beget, produce < genus (gen. generis): see GENUS] 1. to produce (offspring); beget; procreate 2. to bring into being; cause to be [to generate hope] 3. a) … English World dictionary
generate — I verb animate, author, be the cause, beget, begin, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring into existence, call into being, call into existence, cause, cause to be, conduce, construct, contrive, create, develop, do, effect,… … Law dictionary
generate — c.1500, to beget (offspring), a back formation from generation or else from L. generatus, pp. of generare to beget, produce (see GENERATION (Cf. generation)); originally to beget; in reference to natural forces, conditions, substances, etc.,… … Etymology dictionary
generate — [v] produce, create accomplish, achieve, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring to pass, cause, develop, effect, engender, form, found, get up, give birth to, give rise to, hatch, inaugurate, induce, initiate, institute, introduce, make, multiply … New thesaurus
generate — ► VERB 1) cause to arise or come about. 2) produce (energy, especially electricity). DERIVATIVES generable adjective. ORIGIN Latin generare create , from genus stock, race … English terms dictionary
generate — verb ADVERB ▪ quickly ▪ automatically, spontaneously ▪ People used to believe that dirt spontaneously generated disease. ▪ randomly ▪ a sequence of r … Collocations dictionary
