Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of inventor.

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

  • noun One who invents.

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  • noun One who invents; an inventor.

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Examples

  • Come on, just sitting in a committee, probably doing nothing than "thumbs up" or down, whatever your adviser says would be right and than be claimed as one of the inventers??? this is a joke, a really bad one. truly, this Douglas Holtz-Eakin is DUMB AS A BUCKET OF SHRIMP!!! and what kind of "inventer" is McCain if he doesn't even know about E-Mail???

    CNN Political Ticker 2008

  • Did my own Ba, in the prosecution of her studies, get to a book on the forb ” no, un_forbidden shelf ” wherein Voltaire pleases to say that 'si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer'?

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

  • It was designed to be 56 feet long but the first owner, Desmond Molins, the inventer of the cigarette-rolling machine, decided to have it lengthened to 65 feet in 1938 to satisfy his desire for a bigger boat.

    For Fixer-Uppers, It's All Hands on Deck Christine Pirovolakis 2011

  • I actually know the inventer of this knot, Ediety.

    Dress Up Your Ties With The “Merovingian Knot” | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • En 1986, Shoebox Greetings, une division un peu décalée de Hallmark fut constituée et John put se servir de ses souvenirs de personnages féminins de sa vie, dont sa mère, ses tantes et la femme qui l'avait initié à l'art, pour inventer Maxine.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010

  • Would Obama have much defense against being portrayed as latter day Al Gore, internet inventer and all around laughing stock?

    Obama: oh yeah, about that “no new taxes” pledge 2010

  • An april 1st prank sum thyme bak in The Guardian noozpaper a pawsible inventer of lolspeek, btw sed photography waz discobbered in teh Outer Focus mountains.

    SENSING DANGER, POLLY UPGRADES - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • The country has distinguished itself only as the inventer of chips (french fries), the saxophone and the nationality of two fictitious heroes (Poirrot and Tintin) - Oh and by the way it is notorious for its atrocious Colonial record in the Congo (some of us remember how this culminated with Belgium's mishanding of Congolese independence in the 1960's).

    Is there any point in Belgium? Joanna Bogle 2009

  • I actually know the inventer of this knot, Ediety.

    Dress Up Your Ties With The “Merovingian Knot” | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • De nouveaux indicateurs, prenant en compte toute la dimension de l'entreprise et pas uniquement inféodés à sa valeur boursière sont à inventer.

    Archive 2009-04-10 2009

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