Constitute vs Generate - What's the difference?
constitute | generate |
To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
* Jeremy Taylor
To make up; to compose; to form.
* Johnson
To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
* William Wordsworth
To bring into being; give rise to.
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, title= To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
To procreate, beget.
(mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
To appear or occur; be generated.
* 1883 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Three Strangers)
As verbs the difference between constitute and generate
is that constitute is to cause to stand; to establish; to enact while generate is to bring into being; give rise to.As a noun constitute
is (obsolete) an established law.constitute
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(constitut)- Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.
- Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.
- Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.
Synonyms
* establish, enact * make up, compose, formExternal links
* * ----generate
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Verb
(generat)Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao, passage=In the last 20 minutes Athletic began to generate the sort of pressure of which they are capable, but by then it was far too late: the game had begun to slip away from them as early as the seventh minute.}}
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- 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.
