Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The coming into being of something; the origin. synonym: beginning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of begetting, originating, or creating; generation; procreation; production; formation; creation.
- noun Mode of generation; especially, the way in which or the means by which natural propagation is effected.
- noun An explanation or account of the origin of something.
- noun [capitalized] The first book of the Old Testament.
- noun In mathematics, same as
generation , 4.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination.
- noun The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race.
- noun (Geom.) Same as
Generation .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
origin ,start , or point at which somethingcomes intobeing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers
- noun a coming into being
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We use computer models, as you see here, to try to better understand the formation, what we call the genesis of hurricanes, particularly as they come off Africa, and around the globe, for all that's concerned.
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March 2nd, 2010 at 10: 07 pm the saturn version or the genesis is on the ps2 collection?
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The recession's genesis is why things are still sluggish even though the Fed has cut short-term rates, which it controls, to virtually zero and has forced down long-term rates, which it doesn't control, by buying more than $1 trillion of securities in the open market and letting it be known that it and other central banks will buy more.
In this recovery, Washington has less power over the economy than you think Allan Sloan 2010
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The genesis is tangled, but the spark was a meeting in an inn that would send the two off together in search of something and fleeing someone.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Jo Beverley, part two 2009
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So to my mind the search for a second genesis is the most important science question about Mars.
A Design Process 2008
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"True beginning in the eternal comes only with self-genesis" is a line from one of Schelling's notebooks of the period (Tagebücher 109).
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I recalled reading my bible and I found in genesis 1: 26-27 where God said male and female he created he them and gave (both male and female) dominion over everything on earth.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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I recalled reading my bible and I found in genesis 1: 26-27 where God said male and female he created he them and gave (both male and female) dominion over everything on earth.
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The claim that the first chapter of genesis is literal and inerrant and the claim that life shows evidence of design are simply two different claims.
An Historic Tidbit 2007
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Although, the main genesis of the conflict is a blog-like site on the colonists network called Learning The World, written by one of the teenage colonists.
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