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generare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • beget verb To father a child, or more broadly, to be the cause or origin of something.
  • engender verb To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
  • generate verb To produce or create something, especially as an effect or output.
  • procreate verb To produce offspring; to reproduce.
  • provoke verb To deliberately anger or irritate someone.
  • spawn verb Of fish, frogs, or other aquatic creatures, to lay eggs in water.
  • throw verb To send an object through the air using force from your hand or arm.

Senses

generare is used for these senses in English:

  • beget To cause; to produce; to bring forth.
  • generate (transitive) To procreate, beget.
  • generate (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
  • procreate (transitive) To beget or conceive (offsprings).
  • provoke (transitive) To bring about a reaction.
  • throw (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.

engender — full definition

  1. verb To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
  2. verb To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
  3. verb To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
  4. verb To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.

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