[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

generate \gen"erate\, v. t. imp.  p. p. generated; p. pr. 
   vb. n. generating. l. generatus, p. p. of generare to
   generate, fr. genus. see genus, gender.
   1913 webster
   1. to beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce a being
      similar to the parent; to engender; as, every animal
      generates its own species.
      1913 webster

   2. to cause to be; to bring into life. --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. to originate, especially by a vital or chemical process;
      to produce; to cause.
      1913 webster

            whatever generates a quantity of good chyle must
            likewise generate milk.               --arbuthnot.
      1913 webster

   4. math. to trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the
      motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.
      1913 webster
see also:
generated generating genus gender 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

generate
     v 1: bring into existence; "the new manager generated a lot of
          problems"; "the computer bug generated chaos in the
          office" syn: bring forth
     2: give or supply; "the cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "this
        year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "the estate
        renders some revenue for the family" syn: render, yield,
         return, give
     3: produce energy; "we can't generate enough power for the
        entire city"; "the hydroelectric plant needs to to
        generate more electricity"
     4: make children; "abraham begot isaac"; "men often father
        children but don't recognize them" syn: beget, get, engender,
         father, mother, sire, bring forth
see also:
bring forth render yield return give beget 
get engender father mother sire 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

114 moby thesaurus words for "generate":
   accomplish, achieve, amplify, author, bear, beget, breed,
   breed true, bring about, bring forth, bring into being,
   bring to effect, bring to pass, call into being, cause, charge,
   coin, conceive, concoct, construct, contrive, cook up, copulate,
   create, crossbreed, design, develop, devise, discover, do,
   dream up, effect, effectuate, electrify, energize, engender,
   establish, evolve, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, found,
   frame, galvanize, gestate, get, get up, give being to,
   give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to,
   hatch, impose, improvise, inaugurate, inbreed, induce, initiate,
   inspire, institute, introduce, invent, loop in, make, make do with,
   make love, make up, manufacture, mature, mint, mother, mould,
   multiply, muster up, occasion, originate, outbreed, parent,
   perform, plan, plug in, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate,
   provoke, put together, realize, reproduce, reproduce in kind,
   set afloat, set on foot, set up, shock, short, short-circuit, sire,
   spawn, step down, step up, stiffen, strike out, switch off,
   switch on, think out, think up, turn off, turn on, whip up, work,
   work up

[4] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

generate vt. to produce something according to an algorithm or program
   or set of rules, or as a possibly unintended side effect of the
   execution of an algorithm or program. the opposite of parse. this term
   retains its mechanistic connotations though often humorously when used
   of human behavior. "the guy is rational most of the time, but mention
   nuclear energy around him and he'll generate infinite flamage."


see also:
parse infinite 

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

generate
     
        to produce something according to an algorithm or program or
        set of rules, or as a possibly unintended side effect of
        the execution of an algorithm or program.
     
        the opposite of parse.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-06-15
     
     
see also:
algorithm side effect parse jargon file 

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