Devolve and Generate

verb

• Pass on or delegate to another.
  • usage: "The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital"
• Be inherited by.
  • usage: "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
  • synonyms: fall, return, pass
• Grow worse.
  • usage: "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
  • synonyms: deteriorate, drop, degenerate

• (v.t.) To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
• (v.t.) To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
• (v.i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank.

To pass on or delegate to another, e. G. A' DEVOLVE'd letter of credit.

verb

• Bring into existence.
  • usage: "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office"; "The computer generated this image"; "The earthquake generated a tsunami"
  • synonyms: bring forth
• Give or supply.
  • usage: "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1, 000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
  • synonyms: render, yield, return, give
• Produce (energy. )
  • usage: "We can't generate enough power for the entire city"; "The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more electricity"
• Make children.
  • usage: "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
  • synonyms: beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, bring forth

• (v.t.) To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.
• (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.
• (v.t.) To trace out, as a line, figure or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.
• (v.t.) To cause to be; to bring into life.