generate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To bring into being; give rise to: generate a discussion.
2. v. To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process: generate heat.
3. v. To engender (offspring); procreate.
4. v. Mathematics To form (a geometric figure) by describing a curve or surface.
5. v. Computer Science To produce (a program) by instructing a computer to follow given parameters with a skeleton program.
6. v. Linguistics To construct (a sentence, for example), as in generative grammar.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To beget; procreate; engender by sexual union.
2. To produce; cause to be; bring into life.
3. To cause; form; give origin to.
4. In mathematics, to give rise to, as to a geometrical figure; especially, to move so that the locus of the motion shall constitute (the figure specified): thus, a right line moving with one point fixed generates a conical surface.
5. To produce; evolve; as electricity, force, friction, gas, heat, light, velocity, etc.
6. In music, of a tone fundamental to a chord, to suggest or fix (the remaining tones of the harmony).

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To bring into being; give rise to.
2. v. transitive To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
3. v. transitive To procreate, beget.
4. v. transitive, mathematics To form a figure from a curve or solid.
5. v. intransitive To appear or occur; be generated.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender.
2. v. To cause to be; to bring into life.
3. v. To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.
4. v. (Math.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. give or supply
2. v. make children
3. v. produce (energy)
4. v. bring into existence