generating
USJEN-ur-ayt-ing/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɚ.eɪt.ɪŋ/UKJEN-uh-rayt-ing/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt.ɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of generate.
The new turbines are generating enough electricity to supply thousands of homes.
Generating accurate forecasts requires enormous amounts of weather data.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. After a form of be it builds the progressive (the plant is generating heat), and on its own it heads a noun phrase (generating ideas takes time). Either way it usually keeps a direct object, because nearly every use of generate is transitive: power, a result, offspring, even a figure traced by a moving curve. The rare intransitive use, meaning to arise, drops the object.
generating is a form of generate
generate, verb: To bring something into being or cause it to happen. Full entry
- Spelling
- generate → generating: drop the e, add -ing
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