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Founder vs Generator - What's the difference?

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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)
  • 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.
  • Antonyms
    * (one who founds) ruiner

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
  • a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
  • * 1719 ,
  • 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.
  • 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
  • All his tricks founder .

    Usage notes

    Frequently confused with flounder. Both may be applied to the same situation, the difference is the severity of the action: floundering'' (struggling to maintain position) comes first, followed by ''foundering (losing it by falling, sinking or failing).

    Anagrams

    * ----

    generator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Antonyms

    * (one which generates) extinguisher