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Generate vs Ingenerate - What's the difference?

generate | ingenerate |

In transitive terms the difference between generate and ingenerate

is that generate is to procreate, beget while ingenerate is to generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.

As an adjective ingenerate is

innate, inborn.

generate

English

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)
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  • 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.

    Related terms

    * genus * generation * generative * generable * generic * general * degenerate

    Synonyms

    * (to bring into being) create

    Antonyms

    * (to bring into being) annihilate, extinguish * (to produce as a result of a chemical or physical process) erase

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    ingenerate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Innate, inborn.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
    • Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime / That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Those virtues were rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature.

    Verb

    (ingenerat)
  • To generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.
    • (Mede)
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul.
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