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# generator

«generator» in Mova's school dictionary: **a machine that makes electricity** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (generator, generators)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A generator is a machine that makes electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generator/#m1)

2) A generator is anything that produces something («an idea generator», «a random number generator»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generator/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, power stations use huge generators turned by steam, wind or water; wind turbines contain generators. In everyday life, a portable generator gives power during a blackout or at camp. In maths and computing, a random number generator picks numbers by chance. Phrases: «power generator», «backup generator», «random number generator».

### examples

- The hospital has a generator in case the power goes off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generator/#x1)
- Wind turbines turn generators to make electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generator/#x2)
- We used a generator to power the lights at the fete. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generator/#x3)
- A dynamo on a bike is a small generator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generator/#x4)
- Never run a generator indoors; its fumes are deadly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generator/#x5)
- The random number generator picked 17. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generator/#x6)

### note

From the verb «generate» (to produce). Safety: generators give off carbon monoxide; they must only be run outside. In maths, a random number generator gives every allowed number an equal chance.

### In the corpora

- [Engines and generators must never run indoors or in a garage, because they make carbon monoxide.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/19/)
- [Charities and UN agencies use donations to buy food, medicine, blankets and generators for people in and around Ukraine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/25-ukraine-refugees-aid-sanctions-and-childrens-lives/8/)
- [Almost all electricity, except from solar panels, comes from something spinning a generator.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «generator» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/generator/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.