Enact vs Generate - What's the difference?
enact | generate |
(legal) to make (a bill) into law
to act the part of; to play
* Shakespeare
to do; to effect
* Shakespeare
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)
In lang=en terms the difference between enact and generate
is that enact is to do; to effect while generate is to appear or occur; be generated.As verbs the difference between enact and generate
is that enact is (legal) to make (a bill) into law while generate is to bring into being; give rise to.As a noun enact
is (obsolete) purpose; determination.enact
English
Verb
(en verb)- I did enact Julius Caesar.
- The king enacts more wonders than a man.
Derived terms
* enactability * enactable * enactably * enaction * enactorgenerate
English
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.
