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{
"term": "generate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "generate",
"heSheIt": "generates"
},
"pastSimple": "generated",
"pastParticiple": "generated",
"ingForm": "generating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to produce energy, especially electricity",
"sensetop": "generate something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The wind turbines are used to **generate electricity**."
},
{
"text": "to generate heat/power"
},
{
"text": "Living cells generate energy from food."
}
],
"topics": ["The environment"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to produce or create something",
"sensetop": "generate something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "to **generate revenue/income/profit**"
},
{
"text": "We need someone to generate new ideas."
},
{
"text": "The proposal has **generated **a lot of **interest**."
},
{
"text": "The lottery is expected to generate substantial funds for charities."
},
{
"text": "People used to believe that dirt spontaneously generated disease."
},
{
"text": "a sequence of randomly generated fractions"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["quickly", "automatically", "spontaneously"],
"verb + generate": ["help (to)", "be used to", "be expected to"],
"preposition": ["from"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to produce a set or sequence of data by taking an initial set of data and applying a mathematical or logical process to it",
"sensetop": "generate something",
"labels": "(computing)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We generated 10 data sets, which we used to run each of the models."
}
],
"topics": ["Computers"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪt/",
"audio": "ge/generate/generate__gb_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪts/",
"audio": "ge/generate/generates__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪtɪd/",
"audio": "ge/generate/generated__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "ge/generate/generating__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪt/",
"audio": "ge/generate/generate__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪts/",
"audio": "ge/generate/generates__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪtɪd/",
"audio": "ge/generate/generated__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "ge/generate/generating__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘beget, procreate’): from Latin generat- ‘created’, from the verb generare, from genus, gener- ‘stock, race’."
}