generating
present participle of
generate
Meaning of generating in English
generate verb [T] (CREATE)
- The proposed tidal barrage would generate enough electricity to supply between 60,000 and 80,000 homes.
- The ecological effects of the factory need to be balanced against the employment it generates.
- The publicity generated by the court case has given a welcome boost to our sales.
- Her latest film has generated a lot of interest.
- Surveyors say the fault line is capable of generating a major earthquake once in a hundred years.
generate verb [T] (MAKE ENERGY)
B2
- anti-creative
- artefact
- attribute
- attribute something to someone
- bang something out
- bash
- generativity
- grind something out
- handmade
- knock
- knock off (something)
- mint
- rig
- rollout
- run something up
- rush something out
- sand-cast
- scare something up
- spin
- yield
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Examples of generating
generating
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The fewest and longest lines are also drawn on plans generating an 'axial map'.
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As well, qualitative research is frequently used in psychology as a way of generating informed hypotheses for a given topic.
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Then the vertical fluid movement is most accelerated along the rear axis, generating a vertical jet.
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It is also unclear whether retinal waves are responsible for generating fine retinotopy during development.
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Based on our basic biological assumption regarding autotrophs, we believe there must exist metabolic pathways for generating these metabolites.
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That is, ethicists should be actively engaged, not only in judging, but also in generating alternative options.
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A dissection of the mechanisms generating and stabilising polarity in mouse 8- and 16-cell blastomeres: the role of cytoskeletal elements./.
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Generally speaking, the crossover operator works by taking two parents and exchanging par t of their strings, thereby generating two new individuals, the offspring.
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When generating a given word became automated with practice, the same circuit was used as when skilled readers read words aloud.
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Consequently, the formation of the set of generating rules amounts to resolving positive and negative dependencies among rules.
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Again, such a solution has the completely harmless consequence of generating different solmisation patterns in the two statements.
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The essence of our technique is an elegant, concise and uniform way of generating this kind of boilerplate in a functional language.
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However, because generating multiple equilibria is not our goal, we further assume that the borrowing constraint binds in every period.
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Namely, economists participating in guidelines development may get the hurdle high, thereby generating more requests for analytic assistance from industry!
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The second solution turns forward jumps into backward jumps by generating a single block before the child's loop with a jump-hole.
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