Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who contrives or invents; a contriver; an inventor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who devises.

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  • noun A person who devises; a planner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who makes plans

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Examples

  • The interpretation may or may not be what the deviser intended.

    Attached to Strings 2009

  • These transcripts of the 30 "best" selected by the programme's deviser and producer for 34 years run the gamut from the farceur Ben Travers, who saw WG Grace play and was in Australia during England's 1928-29 tour when Don Bradman made his Test debut, to Lily Allen, whose interest in the game was sparked by the 2005 Ashes.

    The Best Views from the Boundary – Test Match Special's Greatest Interviews Rob Bagchi 2010

  • The interpretation may or may not be what the deviser intended.

    Attached to Strings 2009

  • But it has always amused me that Professor Tim Jackson, the deviser of MDP, found that 1976 was the peak year for quality of life in Britain.

    Big society or no, don't get distracted at the cash machine 2011

  • She might have ended up the deviser of merely fascinating stories, gizmos and thingamajigs that brought off-kilter delight.

    New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis 2010

  • She might have ended up the deviser of merely fascinating stories, gizmos and thingamajigs that brought off-kilter delight.

    New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis 2010

  • Medicine (1991) - Alan Kligerman, deviser of digestive deliverance, vanquisher of vapor, and inventor of Beano, for his pioneering work with anti-gas liquids that prevent bloat, gassiness, discomfort and embarrassment.

    Celebrating Silly Science Since 1991 2008

  • Probably the most widely used tool for measuring subjective individual differences in imagery, made available by its deviser, David Marks (1973, 1999).

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • “What means this?” she said; “Douglas, why does the first deviser and bold executor of the happy scheme for our freedom, shun the company of his fellow-nobles, and of the Sovereign whom he has obliged?”

    The Abbot 2008

  • Gatling was the prototypical Yankee tinkerer, a self-educated deviser of farm implements, including a mechanical planter that fed seeds from a hopper.

    Point and Shoot 2008

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