generate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/|[ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɹeɪt]    美 /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/|[ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɹeɪt]|/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɚ.eɪt/|/ˈd͡ʒen.ə.ɹæɪt/|[ˈd͡ʒen.ɹæɪt]

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To bring into being; give rise to. transitive
    — The discussion generated an uproar.
  2. To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process. transitive
    — Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat.
  3. To procreate, beget. transitive
    — They generated many offspring.
  4. To form a figure from a curve or solid. transitive
    — Rotating a circle generates a sphere.
  5. To appear or occur; be generated. intransitive
    — Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.
形容词 adj.
  1. Generated, not self-existent. not-comparable,rare
    — But neither is one time generated in another; for if the preſent be generated in the future, the future muſt be present; and if in the paſt, the paſt. The ſame may be ſaid of other times; therefore one time is not generated in another. Now if time be neither generated in itſelf, nor one time in another, it is not generate at all. But that it is not ingenerate, we ſhewed also. Therefore ſeeing it is neither generate nor ingenerate, it is not at all; for every Beeing muſt either be generate or ingenerate.

词形变化

generates present,singular,third-person generating participle,present generated participle,past generated past

词汇关系

反义词
abrogate annihilate degenerate extinguish obliterate ungenerate erase
衍生词
autogenerate cogenerate congenerate generatability generatable misgenerate overgenerate pregenerate regenerate self-generating undergenerate
相关词
generable general generation generative generic genus

词源

词源 1
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”)).
词源 2
Learned borrowing from Latin generātus, perfect passive participle of generō (“beget, procreate, produce”). See Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
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