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inventor

/in-ven-ter/US // ɪnˈvɛn tər //UK // (ɪnˈvɛntə) //

发明者,发明家,发明人,创作者

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who invents, especially one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.

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Examples

  • Indeed, many of history’s most revered artists and inventors had daily routines that incorporated periods of mental rest.

  • Interestingly, the Club’s inventor was said to have been inspired by his service in the Korean War, when he used a chain to lock the steering wheel of military vehicles.

  • While prosthetic arms and legs remained quite primitive by modern standards, inventors emphasized improvements in comfort and modest gains in functionality.

  • At times she wanted to be a mathematician, an inventor, a scientist and an architect.

  • Von Hippel went on to become a professional inventor, at least for a little while.

  • At his best, he was an inventor of part of the modern cinema's grammar.

  • As described by its inventor, there is an Honest team and a Mafia team that compete against each other.

  • Here, I thought for years my father had been a cook, but apparently he was an inventor.

  • Yet this brilliant inventor, who revolutionized modern technological society, refused the recommended surgical procedure.

  • I just read an interview with Roger Linn, the inventor of the Linn Drum.

  • He was also the inventor of "Poikilorgue," an expressive organ, which was the origin of the harmonium.

  • Probably even to-day the majority would name Walter Map as the populariser, if not the inventor, of the Grail legend.

  • The inventor claimed that the "American Transplanter" could do the work of several men and do it equally well.

  • He was the inventor of Exchequer Bills; and they were popularly called Montague's notes.

  • One who merely utilizes the ideas of others is not an original inventor and is not entitled to a patent.