What's the difference between begat and begot?

Begat


Definition:

  • () of Beget

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Cheka begat the NKVD, the NKVD led to the KGB and now the FSB.
  • (2) The screen adaptation , however, finessed its narrative problems and begat a sleek and vividly thrilling movie from the then unknown wunderkind Steven Spielberg.
  • (3) However, the foundation for success has been laid – the same foundation that led to Donovan's one shot, and the celebrations it begat.
  • (4) Also, Pryor begat Murphy who begat Rock, so it means even more to me.
  • (5) The 1950s saw TV's first soap opera boom, which begat the blueprint doctors-and-nurses serial General Hospital, recognised by Guinness as the longest-running US TV drama.
  • (6) Virality begat virality and one of the most talked about responses was from Betty Ming Liu, a former newspaper columnist who now teaches journalism at New York University.
  • (7) Later, iTunes begat the App Store, a service that solidified the App Phone genre.

Begot


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Beget
  • (p. p.) of Beget
  • () imp. & p. p. of Beget.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intimate alignment of surgeons with physiologists of the circulation begot intracardiac surgery, a significant innovation with consequences of tremendous import for greater medicine's advance.
  • (2) In England property begot a strong place sense, but Americans, restless and with shallow roots, needed fins and wings.
  • (3) This paper describes the inception of a scientific movement (the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology); the individuals who begot it; the two journals and numerous scientific articles which resulted; its effects in stimulating new areas of teaching and of theoretical development; and its international reception as well as its successes and failures in stimulating the creation of satellite societies on the same pattern.

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