Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Generate

Generate , transitive verb

[Latin generatus, past participle of generare to generate, from genus. See Genus, Gender.]

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
4.
(Mathematics) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.