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Word Meanings - GENERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order. (more info) 1. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own

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To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order. (more info) 1. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species. 2. To cause to be; to bring into life. Milton. 3. To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause. Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle must likewise generate milk. Arbuthnot.

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  • BREATHE
    Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
  • BREVIARY
    summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
  • INVENTIVE
    Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
  • MAINTAIN
    by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
  • CAUSEFUL
    Having a cause.
  • DISMISSIVE
    Giving dismission.
  • SUSTAIN
    F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
  • BREAKMAN
    See BRAKEMAN
  • SPREADINGLY
    , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
  • SUPPORTABLE
    Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • ADMITTER
    One who admits.
  • STIFLED
    Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
  • EVOLVENT
    The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
  • EJECTOR
    A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
  • DREINTE; DREINT
    p. p. of Drench to drown. Chaucer.
  • HATCHURE
    See HACHURE
  • SUPPORTATION
    Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
  • DREGGISH
    Foul with lees; feculent. Harvey.
  • PROCREATE
    To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.
  • ENACTMENT
    1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as,
  • UNCREATED
    1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • DEJECTION
    1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
  • UNDRESS
    To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
  • LONG-SUFFERANCE
    Forbearance to punish or resent.
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • CHICKEN-BREASTED
    Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
  • REINCREASE
    To increase again.
  • UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
    Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
  • DEMANDRESS
    A woman who demands.
  • LIBRETTO
    A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves.

 

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