Difference between Return and Generate

What is the difference between Return and Generate?

Return as a verb is to come or go back (to a place or person). while Generate as a verb is to bring into being; give rise to.

Return

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of returning. A return ticket. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect. Gain or loss from an investment. A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return. A carriage return character. The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure. A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower. Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team. A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To come or go back (to a place or person). To go back in thought, narration, or argument. To turn back, retreat. To turn (something) round. To give something back to its original holder or owner. To take something back to a retailer for a refund. To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve. To play a card as a result of another player's lead. To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field. To relinquish control to the calling procedure. To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.

Example sentence: Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

Generate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To bring into being; give rise to.To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.To procreate, beget.To form a figure from a curve or solid.

Example sentence: Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

We hope you now know whether to use Return or Generate in your sentence.

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