Exert vs Generate - What's the difference?
exert | generate |
To put in vigorous action.
To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material.
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, title= 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 exert and generate
is that exert is to put in vigorous action while generate is to bring into being; give rise to.exert
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(en verb)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona, passage=Di Matteo clearly saw Drogba's power as a potential threat to a Barcelona defence stripped of Gerard Pique - but he barely caught sight of goal in a first 45 minutes in which the Catalans exerted their technical superiority.}}
generate
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(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.