Need another word that means the same as “generator”? Find 25 synonyms and 30 related words for “generator” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Generator” are: author, source, motive, motivation, impetus, driving force, incentive, impulse, cause, prime mover, reason, origin, fountain, fount, beginning, root, basis, writer, composer, designer, deviser, maker, inventor, producer, developer
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “generator” as a noun can have the following definitions:
author | The writings produced by a particular author. I had to read authors I disliked. |
basis | The justification for or reasoning behind something. The basis of this drink is orange juice. |
beginning | The event consisting of the start of something. He left at the beginning of February. |
cause | Any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results. Forty five causes were entered in the list for the March session. |
composer | Someone who composes music as a profession. Mozart was her favourite composer. |
designer | Someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings. He is believed to be the principal designer of the terrorist bombing attack. |
developer | Photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film. Software developers. |
deviser | A person who makes plans. |
driving force | The act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal. |
fount | A spring or fountain. Our courier was a fount of knowledge. |
fountain | A natural spring of water. Little fountains of dust. |
impetus | Something that makes a process or activity happen or happen more quickly. The ending of the Cold War gave new impetus to idealism. |
impulse | A change of momentum produced by an impulse equivalent to the average value of the force multiplied by the time during which it acts. He bought it on an impulse. |
incentive | A positive motivational influence. Give farmers an incentive to improve their land. |
inventor | Someone who is the first to think of or make something. |
maker | A business engaged in manufacturing some product. A cabinetmaker. |
motivation | A set of facts and arguments used in support of a proposal. Escape can be a strong motivation for travel. |
motive | A theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music. He acted with the best of motives. |
origin | Properties attributable to your ancestry. Jupiter was the origin of the radiation. |
prime mover | The period of greatest prosperity or productivity. |
producer | A person or thing that makes or causes something. A record producer. |
reason | A justification for something existing or happening. Giles is the reason that I am here. |
root | Any plant grown for its root. In the sequence the roots of the chords drop by fifths. |
source | The place where something begins, where it springs into being. Military sources announced a reduction in strategic nuclear weapons. |
writer | A person who has written something or who writes in a particular way. A CD writer. |
adapter | A musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance. The adapter converts the lens focal length to 5 5 mm. |
antifreeze | A liquid, typically one based on ethylene glycol, that can be added to water to lower the freezing point, chiefly used in the radiator of a motor vehicle. Formulating antifreezes and de icers for railways is no easy job. |
battery | A series of small cages for the intensive rearing of farm animals, especially calves and poultry. Children are given a battery of tests. |
charger | Formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle. |
dam | Obstruct with or as if with a dam. Discussion was in full flow and refused to be dammed. |
detroit | The largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port; center of the United States automobile industry; located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor. |
diesel | A heavy petroleum fraction used as fuel in diesel engines. A diesel locomotive. |
dynamo | A machine for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy, typically by means of rotating coils of copper wire in a magnetic field. She was a dynamo in London politics. |
electric | The system of electric wiring and parts in a house or vehicle. Gave an electric reading of the play. |
electricity | The supply of electric current to a building for heating, lighting, or powering appliances. The atmosphere was charged with a dangerous sexual electricity. |
electrolyte | The ionized or ionizable constituents of a living cell, blood, or other organic matter. The proper amount and distribution of electrolytes in the body is essential for health. |
engine | A fire engine. The roar of a car engine. |
galvanic | Affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling. A searing galvanic experience. |
heat | The amount of heat that is needed to cause a specific process or is evolved in such a process. Chilli peppers add taste and heat to food. |
hydroelectric | Relating to or denoting the generation of electricity using flowing water (typically from a reservoir held behind a dam or barrage) to drive a turbine which powers a generator. Economic and environmental aspect of the hydroelectric scheme. |
kilowatt | A measure of one thousand watts of electrical power. |
locomotive | Of or relating to locomotion. A diesel locomotive. |
motor | Driven by a motor. The sander has a smooth and powerful 520 watt motor. |
oil | Oil paint. 400 birds were coated with oil which spilled out from an opened valve. |
powerhouse | An electrical generating station. Germany s economic powerhouse. |
propulsion | The act of propelling. They dive and use their wings for propulsion under water. |
recharge | (of a person) return to a normal state of mind or strength after a period of exertion. The rate at which the aquifer recharges naturally. |
reservoir | A large or extra supply of something. An infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival. |
ride | A mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement. He rides the subway downtown every day. |
steam | Travel by means of steam power. He steamed his shirts to remove the odour. |
streetcar | A wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity. |
thermoelectric | Involving or resulting from thermoelectricity. |
turbine | A machine for producing continuous power in which a wheel or rotor, typically fitted with vanes, is made to revolve by a fast-moving flow of water, steam, gas, air, or other fluid. |
vaporizer | A device that generates a particular substance in the form of vapour, especially for medicinal inhalation. |
watt | The SI unit of power, equivalent to one joule per second, corresponding to the rate of consumption of energy in an electric circuit where the potential difference is one volt and the current one ampere. |
The synonyms and related words of "Brag" are: blow, bluster, boast, gas, gasconade, shoot a…
The synonyms and related words of "Pierce" are: thrust, make a hole in, penetrate, puncture,…
The synonyms and related words of "Weary" are: aweary, tired, tired out, exhausted, fatigued, overtired,…
The synonyms and related words of "Kick" are: complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off, give…
The synonyms and related words of "Useless" are: futile, pointless, purposeless, impractical, vain, in vain,…
Want to describe something with adjectives that start with 'J'? Though they are not numerous,…