What's the difference between discoverer and inventor?

Discoverer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.
  • (n.) A scout; an explorer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are also problems with gestures such as swiping the screen because they're "inherently vague", and "lack discoverability": there's no way to tell what a gesture will do at any particular point.
  • (2) The company hired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in 2012 to drill on petroleum leases in the Chukchi — Sugarland, Texas-based Noble Drilling US LLC — in December agreed to pay $12.2m after pleading guilty to eight felony environmental and maritime crimes on board the Noble Discoverer.
  • (3) It has been named the Skywalker hoolock gibbon by its discoverers, who are Star Wars fans.
  • (4) Anatomists may take an especial interest in the letters No 1903 to HERDER and No 1904 to CHARLOTTE v. STEIN (both dated the March 27, 1784) which demonstrate the discoverer's mirth in finding out the human os intermaxillare.
  • (5) Politicians like to tell voters that their policies are a rational response to a perfectly discoverable set of facts.
  • (6) One of those funded is Discoverables Ltd, a company limited by shares set up by youth charity Spark+Mettle.
  • (7) The conclusion is that to Wells belongs the singular honor and title of discoverer.
  • (8) Yet for decades we thought it was just a hill made of glacial moraine," says discoverer Nick Card of the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology .
  • (9) The word "scopolamine" is derived from "Scopolia carniolica", a solanaceous plant so named by Carl von Linné in honour of supposed discoverer, J.
  • (10) During an eclectic address – in which he questioned the audience of vice chancellors on basic science, including the name of the discoverer of sodium – Johnson said: "I looked at the recent figures for foreign students coming to this country, and I do not regard what seemed to me to be a reduction in those numbers as necessarily a positive economic indicator.
  • (11) The oil company was forced to send both ships – the Noble Discoverer and the Kulluk – to Asia for repair , effectively ruling out a return to drilling this calendar year.
  • (12) On Sunday, the birthday celebrations go public, with talks on cosmology by the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter, one of the discoverers of dark energy, and long-time Hawking collaborator Kip Thorne.
  • (13) Due to the lowered resistance of the organism, acute pulpitic manifestations without discoverable external cause or exacerbation of chronic periapical processes may occur in the cours of influenza infections.
  • (14) "We think we have a really good relationship with the Journal because they recognise that even with the pay model they felt it was really important to ensure that their content is still discoverable.
  • (15) Whether incident reports are discoverable depends on the purpose of the reports and the laws of the state where the reports are filed.
  • (16) An account is given of teachers and discoverers of venereological importance after von Hebra and Sigmund to Arzt.
  • (17) Thus notions of the newborn as an isolated amoral id, and of the infant as an egocentric discoverer of the object concept, must be rejected.
  • (18) But there was still the problem of discoverability.
  • (19) Two of these patients had no discoverable primary tumour.
  • (20) In the meantime, BP has placed a containment cap on Deepwater Horizon's failed blow-out preventer which takes some of the oil and gas to a drillship, the Discoverer Enterprise .

Inventor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I am so proud to announce my new partnership with Polaroid as the creative director and inventor of speciality projects," said the pop star.
  • (2) In such a case, the inventor may have to play a particularly active role in the patenting process and, especially, the marketing process.
  • (3) A lawyer can provide information about nondisclosure agreements, patents, and other forms of protection for the inventor.
  • (4) John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes, also invented the sunbed, patenting his first device in 1896 – by royal appointment no less, as Edward VII apparently kept one at Windsor Castle for his gout.
  • (5) In The Prestige (2006), Christopher Nolan’s film about two battling magicians, Bowie featured as the inventor Nikola Tesla.
  • (6) Google has celebrated the birth of the inventor of the petri dish, Julius Richard Petri, who was born on May 31, 1852 with a doodle on its home page.
  • (7) A number of possible applications originally proposed by the inventor himself are mentioned.
  • (8) 2012 The inventor of thalidomide, the Grünenthal Group, releases a statement saying it regrets the consequences of the drug .
  • (9) Turere is the inventor of "lion lights", a fence made of a car battery, solar panel and torch bulbs that ensures lions no longer dare touch his father's livestock.
  • (10) Only a few years Smullyan's junior was Ivan Moscovich, 82, a puzzle inventor who was clutching a prototype of his newest product, You And Einstein, which will be in the shops later this year.
  • (11) This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first of the three Back to the Future films, in which he played the wild-eyed inventor Doc Brown.
  • (12) It's been a learning journey for its three Dutch inventors.
  • (13) That the way of this method must be right, is proved by a short historical view and by case reports; On one side by the inventor of this method and on the other side by a retrospective study from the orthopedic department of the Kantonsspital of St. Gallen.
  • (14) The sterile combinations do not even present themselves to the mind of the inventor."
  • (15) Stand aside Dr Quincy, you may no longer be required: the inventor of a state-of-the-art computer-assisted autopsy system that is increasingly being used in European hospitals has claimed the technique could eventually mean there is no such thing as a "perfect murder".
  • (16) Thus we were not able to confirm results published previously by the inventor of this test (Nashed, 1981).
  • (17) Sir James Dyson, vacuum cleaners The inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner is worth up to £2.5bn and owns the £15m Dodington Park estate in Wiltshire.
  • (18) Last but not least, overly complex financial instruments should simply be banned, unless they can be shown by their inventors to bring significant net benefits in the long run, in a manner similar to the drugs approval procedure.
  • (19) Sir Clive Sinclair, its dogged inventor, has claimed 17,000 Sinclair C5s were sold.
  • (20) The Consumer Electronics Show is an annual lovefest between inventors and the gadgetry enthusiasts who love them.

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