{
    "term": "generate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "generate",
            "heSheIt": "generates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "generated",
        "pastParticiple": "generated",
        "ingForm": "generating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to produce energy, especially electricity",
            "sensetop": "generate something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The wind turbines are used to **generate electricity**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to generate heat/power"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Living cells generate energy from food."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["The environment"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to produce or create something",
            "sensetop": "generate something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **generate revenue/income/profit**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need someone to generate new ideas."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The proposal has **generated **a lot of **interest**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The lottery is expected to generate substantial funds for charities."
                },
                {
                    "text": "People used to believe that dirt spontaneously generated disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a sequence of randomly generated fractions"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["quickly", "automatically", "spontaneously"],
                "verb + generate": ["help (to)", "be used to", "be expected to"],
                "preposition": ["from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to produce a set or sequence of data by taking an initial set of data and applying a mathematical or logical process to it",
            "sensetop": "generate something",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We generated 10 data sets, which we used to run each of the models."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Computers"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪt/",
                "audio": "ge/generate/generate__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪts/",
                "audio": "ge/generate/generates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "ge/generate/generated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ge/generate/generating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪt/",
                "audio": "ge/generate/generate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪts/",
                "audio": "ge/generate/generates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "ge/generate/generated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒenəreɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ge/generate/generating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘beget, procreate’): from Latin generat- ‘created’, from the verb generare, from genus, gener- ‘stock, race’."
}