different between producer vs generator

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

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.