"pregenerate" meaning in All languages combined

See pregenerate on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: pregenerates [present, singular, third-person], pregenerating [participle, present], pregenerated [participle, past], pregenerated [past]
Etymology: pre- + generate Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|pre|generate}} pre- + generate Head templates: {{en-verb}} pregenerate (third-person singular simple present pregenerates, present participle pregenerating, simple past and past participle pregenerated)
  1. (transitive) To generate in advance. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-pregenerate-en-verb-jb8kRRwd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with pre-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for pregenerate meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pre",
        "3": "generate"
      },
      "expansion": "pre- + generate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "pre- + generate",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pregenerates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pregenerating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pregenerated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pregenerated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pregenerate (third-person singular simple present pregenerates, present participle pregenerating, simple past and past participle pregenerated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with pre-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To generate in advance."
      ],
      "id": "en-pregenerate-en-verb-jb8kRRwd",
      "links": [
        [
          "generate",
          "generate"
        ],
        [
          "in advance",
          "in advance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To generate in advance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pregenerate"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pre",
        "3": "generate"
      },
      "expansion": "pre- + generate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "pre- + generate",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pregenerates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pregenerating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pregenerated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pregenerated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pregenerate (third-person singular simple present pregenerates, present participle pregenerating, simple past and past participle pregenerated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with pre-",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To generate in advance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "generate",
          "generate"
        ],
        [
          "in advance",
          "in advance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To generate in advance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pregenerate"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.