To beget; procreate; engender by sexual union.To produce; cause to be; bring into life.To cause; form; give origin to.In mathematics, to give rise to, as to a geometrical figure; especially, to move so that the locus of the motion shall constitute (the figure specified): thus, a right line moving with one point fixed generates a conical surface.To produce; evolve; as electricity, force, friction, gas, heat, light, velocity, etc.In music, of a tone fundamental to a chord, to suggest or fix (the remaining tones of the harmony).