Founder vs Generator - What's the difference?
founder | generator | Related terms |
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something originates; one who endows.
(genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
* 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 161.
One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
* 1719 ,
To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
To fail; to miscarry.
* Shakespeare
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.
Founder is a related term of generator.
As nouns the difference between founder and generator
is that founder is one who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something originates; one who endows or founder can be the iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation while generator is generator.As a verb founder
is of a ship, to fill with water and sink.founder
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* (one who founds) ruinerEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The term 'founder' was applied in the British iron industry long afterwards to the ironworker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types
Etymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship but we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a ship foundering in the sea.
- All his tricks founder .
