Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (v. t.) To produce; to create; to engender; as, a town generates its own power.

2. (v. t.) To cause to be; to bring into life.

3. (v. t.) To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.

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