The difference between Degenerate and Generate
When used as verbs, degenerate means to lose good or desirable qualities, whereas generate means to bring into being.
Degenerate is also noun with the meaning: one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
Degenerate is also adjective with the meaning: having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
check bellow for the other definitions of Degenerate and Generate
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Degenerate as an adjective (of qualities):
Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
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Degenerate as an adjective (of a human or system):
Having lost good or desirable qualities.
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Degenerate as an adjective (of an encoding or function):
Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
Examples:
"The [[genetic code]] is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several [[codon codons]]."
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Degenerate as an adjective (mathematics):
A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.
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Degenerate as an adjective (physics):
Having the same quantum energy level.
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Degenerate as a noun:
One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral person.
Examples:
"In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy."
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Degenerate as a verb (intransitive):
To lose good or desirable qualities.
Examples:
"His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital."
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Degenerate as a verb (transitive):
To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
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Generate as a verb (transitive):
To bring into being; give rise to.
Examples:
"The discussion generated an uproar."
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Generate as a verb (transitive):
To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
Examples:
"Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat."
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Generate as a verb (transitive):
To procreate, beget.
Examples:
"They generated many offspring."
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Generate as a verb (transitive, mathematics):
To form a figure from a curve or solid.
Examples:
"Rotating a circle generates a sphere."
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Generate as a verb (intransitive):
To appear or occur; be generated.