A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, the next generation.
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Both leaders should be brought together to ring down the curtain on generations of feuding between the two clans.
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Certainly there are inequalities in level of education even within a generation, but there have been no visible inequities between machines and materials in recent years.
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Culture is handed down from generation to generation.
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Do not leave our generation without hope.
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Each generation would have to rediscover for itself the truths of the past.
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Each new generation makes use of the knowledge.
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For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that only purpose that could be assigned to the generations that succeed one another on the face of this crowded earth was to produce now and then an artist.
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He is the person to lead the next generation.
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If it were not for books, each generation would have to rediscover for itself the truths of the past.
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In Japan solar heat is used more for solar water heaters than for electricity generation.
[yī shì, ㄧ ㄕˋ, 一世] generation; period of 30 years; one's whole lifetime; lifelong; age; era; times; the whole world; the First (of named European Kings), #11,071[Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Generation \Gen`er*a"tion\, n. [OE. generacioun, F.
g['e]n['e]ration, fr.L. generatio.]
1. The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of
animals.
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2. Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or
vital; production; formation; as, the generation of
sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
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3. That which is generated or brought forth; progeny;
offspiring.
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4. 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.
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This is the book of the generations of Adam. --Gen.
v. 1.
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Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and
for a long season, namely, seven generations.
--Baruch vi.
3.
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All generations and ages of the Christian church.
--Hooker.
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5. Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
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Thy mother's of my generation; what's she, if I be a
dog? --Shak.
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6. (Geom.) 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.
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7. (Biol.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which
attend reproduction.
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Note: There are four modes of generation in the animal
kingdom: scissiparity or by fissiparous generation,
gemmiparity or by budding, germiparity or by germs, and
oviparity or by ova.
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{Alternate generation} (Biol.), alternation of sexual with
asexual generation, in which the products of one process
differ from those of the other, -- a form of reproduction
common both to animal and vegetable organisms. In the
simplest form, the organism arising from sexual generation
produces offspiring unlike itself, agamogenetically.
These, however, in time acquire reproductive organs, and
from their impregnated germs the original parent form is
reproduced. In more complicated cases, the first series of
organisms produced agamogenetically may give rise to
others by a like process, and these in turn to still other
generations. Ultimately, however, a generation is formed
which develops sexual organs, and the original form is
reproduced.
{Spontaneous generation} (Biol.), the fancied production of
living organisms without previously existing parents from
inorganic matter, or from decomposing organic matter, a
notion which at one time had many supporters; abiogenesis.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
generation
n 1: all the people living at the same time or of approximately
the same age [syn: {coevals}, {contemporaries},
{generation}]
2: group of genetically related organisms constituting a single
step in the line of descent
3: the normal time between successive generations; "they had to
wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
4: a stage of technological development or innovation; "the
third generation of computers"
5: a coming into being [syn: {genesis}, {generation}]
6: the production of heat or electricity; "dams were built for
the generation of electricity"
7: the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such
production [syn: {generation}, {multiplication},
{propagation}]
From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 [fd-dan-eng]:
generation
generation
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
