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Stipulate vs Generate - What's the difference?

stipulate | generate |

As verbs the difference between stipulate and generate

is that stipulate is to require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement while generate is to bring into being; give rise to.

As an adjective stipulate

is (botany) having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.

stipulate

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(stipulat)
  • To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
  • To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
  • To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
  • Derived terms
    * stipulated * stipulation * stipulative

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany) Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.
  • Antonyms
    * exstipulate

    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)
  • , 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.

    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

    Anagrams

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