Generate vs Generative - What's the difference?
generate | generative |
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)
Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
* That generative particle. — Bentley
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As a verb generate
is to bring into being; give rise to.As an adjective generative is
having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.generate
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.
Synonyms
* (to bring into being) createAntonyms
* (to bring into being) annihilate, extinguish * (to produce as a result of a chemical or physical process) eraseExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----generative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Of course, structures like those associated with (36) and (37) constitute only a tiny subset of the infinite set of well-formed sentence structures found in English. We can increase the Generative Capacity of our grammar ( = the set of structures which it generates) either by expanding the Lexicon on the one hand, or by expanding the Categorial Rules (i.e. Phrase Structure Rules) on the other.