Father vs Generator - What's the difference?
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A (generally human) male who begets a child.
* Bible, Proverbs x. 1
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A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
* Bible, 1 Kings ii. 10
* Bible, Rom. iv. 16
* Shakespeare
A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
* Bible, Job xxix. 16
* Bible, Genesis xiv. 8
The founder of a discipline or science.
A senator of Ancient Rome.
To be a father to; to sire.
* 1592 , v 4
(figuratively) To give rise to.
* 1610 — ii 2
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
* 1610 — iv 2
To provide with a father.
* Shakespeare
To adopt as one's own.
* Jonathan Swift
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
# (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.
# (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
# (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.
# (geometry) One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
# (programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters will generate multiple output values on request.
A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
# Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
As nouns the difference between father and generator
is that father is a (generally human) male who begets a child while generator is one who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.As a verb father
is to be a father to; to sire.As a proper noun Father
is god, the father of Creation.father
English
Noun
(en noun)- A wise son maketh a glad father .
- David slept with his fathers .
- Abraham, who is the father of us all
- Bless you, good father friar!
- I was a father to the poor.
- He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house.
Synonyms
* (parent) See alsoAntonyms
* (with regards to gender) mother * (with regards to ancestry) son, daughter, childHypernyms
* (a male parent) parentDerived terms
* Father Christmas * Father of Lies * Father Time * Father's Day * fatherhood * father-in-law * fatherland * fatherless * fatherliness * fatherly * forefather * godfather * God the Father * grandfather * great-grandfather * Heavenly Father * how's your father * * stepfatherVerb
(en verb)- Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live; Especially since Charles must father it.
- Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.
- Ay, good youth! And rather father thee than master thee.
- Think you I am no stronger than my sex, / Being so fathered and so husbanded?
- Men of wit / Often fathered what he writ.
