dynamo

plural dynamos

1. electrical engineeringAn electricity generator; a dynamo-electric machine.

   "As usual, it isn't telling the truth about it or you. But your body is. I can feel its vitality like the pulse of a dynamo."

   1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 176

2. astrophysicsThe mechanism by which a celestial body, such as the Earth or a star, generates a magnetic field.
3. figurativelyAn energetic person.

   That new Vice President of Marketing is a real dynamo; sales have already gone up this quarter.

alternative Dinamo

1. Dynamo Sports Club, a national sporting association in the Soviet Union, and other similiar organisations in other socialist countries and their successor states.
2. Any of various football clubs and other sports teams linked to a Dynamo association, including Dynamo Berlin, Dynamo Dresden, Dynamo Kyiv and Dinamo Zagreb in soccer and HC Dynamo Moscow in ice hockey.

   The only Dynamo player to win the most valuable player award in Soviet hockey history was Maltsev.

   1990, Lawrence Martin, The Red Machine: The Soviet Quest to Dominate Canada's Game

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   Following elimination at the hands of Liverpool in the quarter-finals of the same tournament two years later, Hänel lamented that the 'nervousness' of the Dynamo team allowed the English club to progress comfortably to the next round.

   2018 April 19, Paul Dietschy, Origins and Birth of the Europe of football, Routledge, →ISBN

   He was thrice elected head coach during Soviet times and thrice became Dynamo's head coach. He dedicated many years to the club. Following his death, Lobanovskyi was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine, the nation's highest honor.

   2023 November 30, Thomas M. Wilson, Europe: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society [2 volumes], Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN