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inventor [ɪnˈvɛntə] n
a person who invents, esp as a profession inventress fem n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Translations inventor [ɪnˈvɛntər] n → inventeur/trice m/f inventor n → Erfinder(in) m(f) inventor [ɪnˈvɛntəʳ] n → inventore/trice inventor [ɪnˈvɛntəʳ] n → inventore/trice How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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