Literary notes about Generate (AI summary)
"Generate" in literature conveys the act of bringing something into being, whether it be a physical phenomenon, an abstract concept, or a ripple of social change. Authors employ the term to denote the production of tangible elements—as when friction generates heat [1] or an engine generates speed [2]—while it also serves to illustrate the creation of intangible forces such as knowledge [3], emotions [4], or even moral imperatives [5]. Such usage spans technical processes, like generating electricity [6, 7, 8], to more metaphorical implications where actions or conditions give rise to new ideas and cultural shifts [9, 10, 11]. This versatility underscores a broader literary tendency to use "generate" as a dynamic bridge between cause and effect across both natural and human realms [12, 13].
- Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress, and Mr. Tulliver's heat was certainly more and more palpable.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot - Now then, since an engine is needed to generate that speed, and a mechanic to run that engine, I conclude: we're saved."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - To generate knowledge in his pupils is a legitimate end of the teacher's ambition.
— from What Is and What Might BeA Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Edmond Holmes - "Oh, there is poisonous stuff in any man's heart sufficient to generate a brood of serpents," said Elliston with a hollow laugh.
— from Mosses from an old manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Just so when organic bodies generate a will bent on their preservation, they add a value and a moral function to their equilibrium.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - The electric cells you use to generate this marvelous force must be depleted very quickly.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - It would be possible to generate electricity by the energy of the moving train itself, and this has indeed been suggested to be done.
— from The Story of the Pullman Car by Joseph Husband - Dynamos are used to generate the current for heating and lighting purposes.
— from Things a Boy Should Know About ElectricitySecond Edition by Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John - Another challenge is maintaining economic growth over a period of time to generate employment and make the government debt burden more manageable.
— from The 2006 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency - The alternate truth that the catastrophies themselves are re-agents to generate the crisis-situation has not been so commonly noted.
— from Catastrophe and Social ChangeBased Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince - It is wonderful how words generate ideas!
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - Ἐκφύω, ( ἐκ & φύω ) f. ύσω, to generate; to put forth, shoot, Mat. 24.32.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield - And he who in youth has the seed of these implanted in him and is himself inspired, when he comes to maturity desires to beget and generate.
— from Symposium by Plato