generate

generate
verb
ADVERB
▪ quickly
▪ automatically, spontaneously
▪

People used to believe that dirt spontaneously generated disease.

▪ randomly
▪

a sequence of randomly generated numbers

▪ locally
VERB + GENERATE
▪ help (to)
▪

the opportunity to help generate ideas

▪ be used to
▪

The wind turbines are used to generate electricity.

▪ be expected to, be likely to
▪

The lottery is expected to generate substantial funds for charities.

PREPOSITION
▪ from
▪

Living cells generate energy from food.

▪

profits generated from the company's activities

Generate is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑economy
Generate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑business, ↑buzz, ↑capital, ↑cash, ↑code, ↑confidence, ↑confusion, ↑controversy, ↑current, ↑data, ↑debate, ↑demand, ↑discussion, ↑document, ↑earnings, ↑electricity, ↑emission, ↑employment, ↑energy, ↑enthusiasm, ↑estimate, ↑excitement, ↑expectation, ↑fee, ↑flow, ↑force, ↑friction, ↑fund, ↑goodwill, ↑headline, ↑heat, ↑hysteria, ↑idea, ↑image, ↑impulse, ↑income, ↑interest, ↑job, ↑light, ↑momentum, ↑motivation, ↑mountain, ↑noise, ↑outrage, ↑oxygen, ↑pollution, ↑power, ↑pressure, ↑profile, ↑profit, ↑publicity, ↑report, ↑representation, ↑resentment, ↑response, ↑result, ↑return, ↑revenue, ↑sale, ↑saving, ↑signal, ↑steam, ↑stream, ↑support, ↑surplus, ↑suspense, ↑sympathy, ↑tension, ↑torrent, ↑traffic, ↑uncertainty, ↑unease, ↑voltage, ↑waste, ↑wave, ↑wealth

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