different between generator vs begetter

English

Etymology

From Latin, from past participle of genero (“beget, father”)

Noun

generator (plural generators)

1. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
   1. (chemistry) An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
   2. (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
   3. (mathematics) An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the given relators.
   4. (geometry) One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
   5. (programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.
2. A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
   1. Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Antonyms

• (one which generates): extinguisher

Derived terms

• steam generator
• traffic generator
• wind generator

Translations

Latin

Verb

gener?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of gener?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of gener?

References

• generator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• generator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin generare

Noun

generator m (definite singular generatoren, indefinite plural generatorer, definite plural generatorene)

1. a generator

Derived terms

• vindgenerator

References

• “generator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin generare

Noun

generator m (definite singular generatoren, indefinite plural generatorar, definite plural generatorane)

1. a generator

Derived terms

• vindgenerator

References

• “generator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

beget +? -er

Noun

begetter (plural begetters)

1. A procreator; one who begets.
   • 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, Dublin, p. 17,^[1]

     Our fond Begetters, who would never die,

     Love but themselves in their posteritie.

   • 1917, Thomas Hardy, “The Pedigree” in Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses, London: Macmillan, p. 63,^[2]

     It was a mirror now,

     And in it a long perspective I could trace

     Of my begetters, dwindling backward each past each

     All with the family look,

     Whose names had since been inked down in their place

     On the recorder’s book,

     Generation and generation of my mien, and build, and brow.

2. (figuratively) An originator; a creator.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Shake-speares Sonnets, London: Thomas Thorpe, Dedication,^[3]

     To the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets Mr. W. H. all happinesse and that eternitie promised by our ever-living poet wisheth the well-wishing adventurer in setting forth.

   • 1911, Saki, “Tobermory” in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, 1912, p. 30,^[4]

     He was neither a wit nor a croquet champion, a hypnotic force nor a begetter of amateur theatricals.

   • 1980, Doris Lessing, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, London: Jonathan Cape, p. 3,^[5]

     Rumours are the begetters of gossip. Even more are they the begetters of song.

   • 2015, Ayaz Amir, “So what else should Christians do?” The News International, 17 March, 2015,^[6]

     As the sponsor and begetter of extremism, it was only the army which could take on religious extremism along the north-western marches and the ‘secular’ brand of terrorism down south in Karachi.

Translations