Generate

From Latin generÄtus, perfect passive participle of generÅ ("beget, procreate, produce"), from genus ("a kind, race, family"); see genus.

Full definition of generate

2012, May 9, Jonathan Wilson, Europa League: Radamel Falcao's AtlÃ©tico Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao, 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.
2013-06-22, T time, The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them...is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies....current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate...â€œstateless incomeâ€: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

The discussion generated an uproar.
(transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat.
(transitive) To procreate, beget.
They generated many offspring.
(transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
Rotating a circle generates a sphere.
(intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.

1883, Thomas Hardy, The Three StrangersMrs. 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.