Verb

(generat)

To bring into being; give rise to.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 9, author=Jonathan Wilson, work=the Guardian

, title= 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.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= T time , passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them

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)

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.

Verb

(en-verb)

To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.

To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.

* W. Nicholson

Copernicus generalized' the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton ' generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.

To spread throughout the body and become systemic.

To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.

* Coleridge

A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts.