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Generators and motors are very similar, both involve wires attached to armatures rotating between fixed magnets.
With many motors, if you turn a motor, it acts as a generator, and if you force current through a generator, it starts acting as a motor.
Of course, it is not that simple. Many motors use windings that use the current to power the 'field coils" (electromagnets making the magnetic field), which would have to be provided before the motor would generate current. Simple motors like you find in desk fans use one coil carrying AC to induce currents and therefore magnetism in the armature.
Generators often use electromagnets to create the field, and the strength of those electromagnets is regulated to provide the required voltage. Both motors and generators use coil designs that are customised to the job that they are designed to do.
So, theoretically, all you need to do to make a generator into a motor is connect a source of electric current to it. In practice, it's not that easy.
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