different between producer vs begetter

English

Etymology

produce +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???dju?s?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p???du?s?/

Noun

producer (plural producers)

1. (economics) An individual or organization that creates goods and services.
2. One who produces an artistic production like a CD, a theater production, a film, a TV program and so on.
3. (biology) An organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple molecules and an external source of energy.
4. (Britain, Ireland, slang) An arrest for speeding after which the driver is allowed seven days (or ten, in the Republic of Ireland) in which to produce his/her driving licence and related documents at a police station.
5. (archaic) A furnace for producing combustible gas for fuel.

Derived terms

• executive producer
• primary producer

Descendants

Translations

Anagrams

• procured

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English producer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prodju?s?r/, [p???o?d?ju?s?]

Noun

producer c (singular definite produceren, plural indefinite producere)

1. producer (one who produces an artistic production)

Inflection

Further reading

• “producer” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See producere (“to produce”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /produse?r/, [p???od?use????], [p???od?u?se???]

Verb

producer

1. imperative of producere

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English producer.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pro?du?cer

Noun

producer m (plural producers, diminutive producertje n)

1. producer

Synonyms

• producent

Hungarian

Etymology

From English producer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?produt?s?r]
• Hyphenation: pro?du?cer
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

producer (plural producerek)

1. producer, showrunner (one who produces an artistic production)

Declension

References

Interlingua

Verb

producer

1. to produce

Conjugation

Scots

Etymology

From English producer.

Noun

producer (plural producers)

1. producer

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.

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