Index of English words, starting with "ge"

(1) - Generalship (n.) Fig.: Leadership; management.
(2) - Generalship (n.) Military skill in a general officer or commander.
(3) - Generalship (n.) The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.

(1) - Generate (v. t.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.
(2) - Generate (v. t.) To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.
(3) - Generate (v. t.) To cause to be; to bring into life.
(4) - Generate (v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

(1) - Generation (n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
(2) - Generation (n.) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
(3) - Generation (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
(4) - Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.
(5) - Generation (n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
(6) - Generation (n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
(7) - Generation (n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

(1) - Generative (a.) Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.