Used in a Sentence

begat

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for begat.

Editorial note

And b6ff3ed continued after it begat 99e395a for seven hundred eighty and two log entries and begat many experimental feature branches.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech2

Quick take

(nonstandard) To beget.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of begat gathered in one view.

verb

(nonstandard) To beget.

noun

(nonstandard) An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for begat.

verb

(nonstandard) To beget.

noun

(nonstandard) An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible

Example sentences

1

And b6ff3ed continued after it begat 99e395a for seven hundred eighty and two log entries and begat many experimental feature branches.

2

One might say that CFEngine begat Puppet which begat Chef.

3

And 171b25e continued as a tagged branch after it begat fe961ca while the author made eight hundred more log entries, and begat further experimental feature branches.

4

Catalog retail begat e-commerce, where the catalogs were placed online and the retailers dispensed with stores entirely.

5

This meant that fights over minute matters could easily escalate into deaths, and that murder begat murder.

6

After fe961ca was sixty and five years log entries, and was known as e56b8bd, who begat 882b79d.

7

And 882b79d preceded a hundred eighty and seven log entries and was then known as b6ff3ed, and begat 99e395a.

8

It is tendency for many to go against this policy, which is why it was begat.

9

Project FOO, Chapter 5, Verse 18-27 (King Linus Version) And 171b25e, after one hundred sixty and two log entries begat fe961ca.

10

Bubble memory begat SSD, so memory has in some sense become the new disk.

11

Department stores begat catalog retail, where there was no human, you just placed an order by mail and it was shipped to you.

12

They begat a lava layered monstrosity that doesn't scale and isn't maintainable.

Quote examples

1

Then "the history of rome" podcast begat "the history of byzantium" podcast.

2

"B begat C" still makes it in as do a few similar ones but considering how pathological a case a single-letter identifier is I can forgive that.

3

The Old Testament tells the story from the point of view of Jewish tribes, and they don't complain that other people are anti-Semitic, and it's appropriate as the most fighting happens between different Semitic people (and they know it since they actually tell so in their genealogies, you know that "boring" "who begat whom" parts).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use begat in a sentence?

And b6ff3ed continued after it begat 99e395a for seven hundred eighty and two log entries and begat many experimental feature branches.

What does begat mean?

(nonstandard) To beget.

What part of speech is begat?

begat is commonly used as verb, noun.