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# generate

«generate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to produce or make it, like electricity, heat or power** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (generate, generates, generated, generating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To generate something is to produce or make it, like electricity, heat or power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generate/#m1)

2) To generate means to cause something or bring it about: generate interest, generate ideas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons power stations, wind turbines and solar panels generate electricity. In maths, a rule generates a sequence: «start at 3 and add 4» generates 3, 7, 11, 15. In everyday life a computer can generate a password. Phrases: generate electricity, generate ideas, randomly generated.

### examples

- Wind turbines generate electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generate/#x1)
- The fire generated a lot of heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generate/#x2)
- Use the rule to generate the first five numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generate/#x3)
- The school fair generated £500 for charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generate/#x4)
- Let's generate some ideas for our story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generate/#x5)
- The computer generated a random number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generate/#x6)
- Rubbing your hands together generates heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generate/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. Nouns: generator (a machine that makes electricity), generation (making; also a group of people born about the same time). In maths, a rule generates the terms of a sequence.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «generate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.