in·no·vate

(ĭn′ə-vāt′)

v. in·no·vat·ed, in·no·vat·ing, in·no·vates

v.tr.

To begin or introduce (something new) for the first time.

v.intr.

To begin or introduce something new.

[French innover, from Old French, from Latin innovāre, innovāt-, to renew : in-, intensive pref.; see in-² + novāre, to make new (from novus, new; see newo- in Indo-European roots).]

in′no·va′tor n.

in′no·va·to′ry (-və-tôr′ē) adj.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

innovator - someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

groundbreaker, pioneer, trailblazer

conceiver, mastermind, originator - someone who creates new things

innovator

noun modernizer, introducer, inventor, changer, transformer He is an innovator in this field.

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Translations

مُبْتَكِر، مُجَدِّد

-kanovátor

fornyer

innovateur novateur

újító

nÿjungasmiîur, frumherji

novátor

innovator

[ˈɪnəʊveɪtəʳ] N → innovador(a) m/f

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innovator

[ˈɪnəveɪtə^r] n → novateur/trice m/f

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innovator

n → Neuerer m, → Neuerin f; (of reform) → Begründer(in) m(f)

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innovator

[ˈɪnəʊˌveɪtəʳ] n → innovatore/trice

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innovation

(inəˈveiʃən) noun

(the act of making) a change or a new arrangement etc. The new system in the school canteen was a welcome innovation.

ˈinnovator noun

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Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

It is necessary, therefore, if we desire to discuss this matter thoroughly, to inquire whether these innovators can rely on themselves or have to depend on others: that is to say, whether, to consummate their enterprise, have they to use prayers or can they use force?

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Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?

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Many-sidedness was almost essential as a pretext for the Innovators. "Distinction of sides is intended by Nature to imply distinction of colours" -- such was the sophism which in those days flew from mouth to mouth, converting whole towns at a time to the new culture.

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But legislators who would establish this principle are apt to overlook what they ought to consider; that while they regulate the quantity of provisions which each individual shall possess, they ought also to regulate the number of his children; for if these exceed the allotted quantity of provision, the law must necessarily be repealed; and yet, in spite of the repeal, it will have the bad effect of reducing many from wealth to poverty, so difficult is it for innovators not to fall into such mistakes.

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The daring innovators started with the new notion of buying a picture which they themselves could admire and appreciate, and for the genuineness of which the artist was still living to vouch.

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Regarding themselves as Middlemarch institutions, they were ready to combine against all innovators, and against non-professionals given to interference.

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It is true that his nature was extremely conservative; that after a brief period of youthful free thinking he was fanatically loyal to the national Church and to the king (though theoretically he was a Jacobite, a supporter of the supplanted Stuarts as against the reigning House of Hanover); and that in conversation he was likely to roar down or scowl down all innovators and their defenders or silence them with such observations as, 'Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig.' At worst it was not quite certain that he would not knock them down physically.

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ENPNewswire-July 30, 2019--University of Kent: Electronic engineering student shortlisted for Young Innovator of the Year

University of Kent: Electronic engineering student shortlisted for Young Innovator of the Year

The National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI) announced five winners of its "Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!" competition who will each receive $50,000 in grant funding and access to the consortium's first-of-its-kind "Pediatric Device Innovator Accelerator Program" led by MedTech Innovator.

Five Winners of $250K Ortho & Spine Pediatric Pitch Competition Announced

The event will be accompanied by an exhibition entitled "Gulf Innovator Exhibition" that will host 30 innovators from various GCC countries, bringing together innovators, inventors, businessmen, investors and media from the GCC countries.

The Sultanate to Mark World Intellectual Property Day