Synonyms:
generate, bring_forth
Meaning: bring into existence; "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office"; "The computer generated this image"; "The earthquake generated a tsunami"
Synonyms:
render, yield, return, give, generate
Meaning: give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
Synonyms:
generate
Meaning: produce (energy); "We can't generate enough power for the entire city"; "The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more electricity"
Synonyms:
beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring_forth
Meaning: make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
Usage examples
Agnes was not by nature a greedy girl, as I have said; but self-conceit will go far to generate every other vice under the sun.
Just as in other perfect natural things, besides the universal active causes, each one is endowed with its proper powers derived from those universal causes: for the sun alone does not generate man; but in man is the power of begetting man: and in like manner with other perfect animals.
He proves this from the fact that "man and the sun generate man from matter." It is separate indeed according to its intellectual power, because the intellectual power does not belong to a corporeal organ, as the power of seeing is the act of the eye; for understanding is an act which cannot be performed by a corporeal organ, like the act of seeing.