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inventor

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in·vent  (n-vnt)
tr.v. in·vent·ed, in·vent·ing, in·vents
1. To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.
2. To make up; fabricate: invent a likely excuse.

[Latin invenre, invent-, to find : in-, on, upon; see in-2 + venre, to come; see gw- in Indo-European roots.]

in·venti·ble adj.
in·ventor n.

inventor [ɪnˈvɛntə]
n
a person who invents, esp as a profession
inventress  fem n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.inventorinventor - someone who is the first to think of or make something
creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things
patentee - the inventor to whom a patent is issued

inventor
noun creator, father, maker, author, framer, designer, architect, coiner, originator the inventor of the telephone
Translations
inventor [ɪnˈventəʳ] Ninventor(a) m/f

inventor [ɪnˈvɛntər] ninventeur/trice m/f

inventor
nErfinder(in) m(f)

inventor [ɪnˈvɛntəʳ] ninventore/trice
inventor [ɪnˈvɛntəʳ] ninventore/trice

inventor مُختَرِع vynálezce opfinder Erfinder εφευρέτης inventor keksijä inventeur izumitelj inventore 発明者 발명가 uitvinder oppfinner wynalazca inventor изобретатель uppfinnare ผู้ประดิษฐ์ mucit người phát minh 发明者


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AN Inventor went to a King and was granted an audience, when the following conversation ensued:
And the third of these speech-improving Bells, the inventor of the telephone, inherited the peculiar genius of his fathers, both inventive and rhetorical, to such a degree that as a boy he had constructed an artificial skull, from gutta-percha and India rubber, which, when enlivened by a blast of air from a hand-bellows, would actually pronounce several words in an almost human manner.
I mean here the inventor of that most exquisite entertainment, called the English Pantomime.
 
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