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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.
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
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inventor [ɪnˈvɛntəʳ] ninventor(a) m/f
inventor [ɪnˈvɛntəʳ] invent ninventeur/trice
inventor [ɪnˈvɛntəʳ] invent nErfinder(in) m(f)
inventor [ɪnˈvɛntəʳ] ninventore m


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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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