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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE great ▪ But the great inventor was not at a loss. ▪ He had Daedalus, a great architect and inventor , construct a place of confinement for him from which escape was impossible. ▪ Every great inventor or scientist ...
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The Inventor Rational is one of the 16 role variants of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter , a self-assessed personality questionnaire designed to help people better understand themselves. David Keirsey originally described the Inventor role variant; however, ...
Wiktionary
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alt. One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation. n. One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "a discoverer," from Latin inventor (fem. inventrix ) "contriver, author, discoverer," agent noun from past participle stem of invenire (see invention ). Meaning "one who contrives or produces a new thing or process" is from 1550s.
Usage examples of inventor.
Swift, Arv Hanson, and Bud watched as the young inventor spun a valve to flood the aquarium system with water.
Instead the mild little inventor, with his spools and his pulleys, his bits of wire and his measureless reaches of string, pursued his peaceful though tortuous way, and if his abode became transformed into a magnified cobweb only himself and Celestina were inconvenienced thereby.
The new idea, whatever it was, was evidently not one to be hastily perfected, for the next morning when Celestina went down stairs, she found the jaded inventor seated moodily in a rocking-chair before the kitchen stove, his head in his hands.
The thing had been placed in the loft by the previous tenant, a Swiss inventor and collagist who was totally, rampagingly mad as only the Swiss can be.
The case was far more dramatic than the disappearance of the inventor, Ralph Fayden, and the evanishment of several dozen others.
She asserted before all her friends that they were the universal panacea, and knowing herself perfect mistress of the inventor, she did not enquire after the secret of the composition.
The Asiatic Greeks were the first inventors, the successors of Alexander the first objects, of this servile and impious mode of adulation.
Only a twilight dimness illuminated the little glass sanctum of the inventor and constructor of the Mortlake Aeroplane.
It is therefore important that frequent examinations shall be made, even if no apparent injuries exist, as it is the opinion of the inventor of the guns that the principal, if not the only cause of failure of these guns in service, is due to the rupture of shells within the bore.
For all you know, some of the boys might grow up to be famous inventors, or Stakhanovites, or flyers, or scientists, and the old file of the class newspaper will show how they studied in school.
For this day, which we celebrate once a yeare in honour of the god Risus, is alwaies renowned with some solemne novel, and the god doth continually accompany with the inventor therof, and wil not suffer that he should be sorrowfull, but pleasantly beare a joyfull face.
Following the eager young inventor came the contractors, some of the white workers, Mr.
Rather, he was something of a poet, an inventor of on-the-spot ballads called corridos, and at one time he had been able to read and write in both English and Spanish.
The precursors, those that run before, the explorers, the discoverers, the inventors, the prophets.
From the club secretary he learned that a number of inventors were working on electric cars, and there promised to be many of the speedy vehicles in the race.