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What is another word for dynamos?

Pronunciation: [dˈa͡ɪnɐmˌə͡ʊz] (IPA)

Dynamos are essentially machines that convert mechanical energy into electrical energy. These machines are critical for the functioning of many devices that we use every day, such as motors, generators, and power stations. Synonyms for the word dynamo include generator, alternator, power plant, and electric machine. Each of these terms describes a different aspect of the machine, but they all relate to the same purpose of converting energy from one form to another. Without dynamos, our modern world would not have access to the vast amounts of electrical power required to keep everything from streetlights to smartphones functioning.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Dynamos

Nor is it possible for me to describe in this place the mechanical marvels of the institution-the huge underground boiler-house, with its sixteen boilers; the electrician's room, clean and bright as a new dollar, with its "purring dynamos" and its immense switch-board; the tunnel through which books are delivered by electric trolley to the legislators in the Capitol, within eight minutes of the time they are applied for; and, most wonderful of all, the endless chain, with its series of baskets, whereby books are not only brought down to the reading room, but re-delivered, at the mere touch of a button on whatever "deck" of the nine-storied "book-stacks" they happen to belong to.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
The dance ended too soon, and, when the music broke off with a crash of clanging chords, Nasmyth led his partner out of the press into a little log-walled room where the half-built dynamos stood.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Many brief prose poems in literature are dynamos of emotion.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell

Famous quotes with Dynamos

  • ...but to Adams the dynamo became a symbol of infinity. As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross.
    Henry Adams
  • President Reagan brought us to the ultimate: America As Total Television. During his governance the printed word simply ceased to matter. White House dynamos had once telephoned newspapers to complain about unfair reporting. Not anymore. Now they telephoned network bosses. Even then it wasn't poor reporting they complained about, but poor pictures. A network reporter who thought her report on shortcomings in Reaganland would anger the President's cadres was amazed when the man in charge of propaganda thanked her for doing them a good turn. But, she said, that was a tough piece of reporting. Oh, the words may have been, said the gentleman, but on television words didn't matter. What mattered were pictures. And the pictures had been wonderful.
    Russell Baker
  • The simplicity attached to the operation of an electric vehicle by any person of ordinary intelligence is too well known to need comment at this point ; but it is found from experience that there is the same difference in the care taken of an electric vehicle that there is among men who attend dynamos and steam engines, or drive horses, with a corresponding difference in troubles and aggravations.
    Clinton Edgar Woods

Related words: dynamo generator, dynamo bike, dynamo light

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