What's the difference between inurement and inventor?

Inurement


Definition:

  • (n.) Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Growing up in and around war zones and in high-crime environments will inure a person to risk and violence.
  • (2) Perhaps we are beginning to become inured – thickening our skin and hardening our hearts, proofing ourselves against the pain to come.
  • (3) It and subsequent genocides could only have taken place because people had become “inured”.
  • (4) Many of us have become inured to shock at the revolving door between politicians, the civil service, high-ranking military personnel and the arms trade.
  • (5) Hours after the attack ended, US troops with sniffer dogs checked the building for undetonated explosives, as security officials inured to violence snapped pictures of the bodies and discussed the support the fighters must have received.
  • (6) The simultaneous changes of thermoregulation can be looked upon as part of the reaction of the whole body (also called inurement).
  • (7) Inurement by exposure lies at the heart of most of our leisure activities.
  • (8) All of us can help by advocating on behalf of the doctors and their patients, refusing to accept their suffering is normal, even if the world can sometimes seems inured to Syria’s pain.
  • (9) A federation whose other alumni include former president Jack Warner, the long time rogue whose scheme to cream off funds meant for Haitian earthquake victims shocked even those who ha become inured to his antics, and Chuck Blazer, who siphoned millions in consultancy fees to fund a lavish Trump Towers lifestyle for himself, his cats and his parrots.
  • (10) But when you’ve been the subject of a $250bn lawsuit at the tender age of 23, then no doubt you become inured to opposition.
  • (11) Air traffic controllers stopped work from 1000 to 1300 GMT and journalists stopped work for five hours.But the bleak weather and despondency among Greeks inured to protests against the erosion of jobs and benefits meant the marches largely fizzled, with two unions cancelling plans for a coordinated march to parliament because of the rain.
  • (12) Her public, now inured to Gaga dressed in beef, was bewildered to hear that Artpop has been heavily influenced by the performance artist Marina Abramovic and sculptor Jeff Koons.
  • (13) Churchill's "lion-hearted nation" could not have endured the last war, or the Blitz, without inurement training.
  • (14) He became inured to seeing dead people all around him: "We did not care if we died today or only tomorrow."
  • (15) If they are not inured to criticism, I don't think anybody is."
  • (16) Becoming inured to welfare, they cease to hunt for opportunities and investment projects, and lose the skills needed to do so.
  • (17) In fact, such incidents do not make news in China , for people have long been inured to them.
  • (18) I also added my name for a more practical reason,” he said, “the government of Bangladesh might be more subject to influence because of this letter than a government in the west, where letters and petitions and appeals and the like are always flying about, and politicians grown inured to them.
  • (19) I have become inured to the messages on the outside of cigarette packages.
  • (20) Studios have learned that popular franchises can effectively be inured against weakly-received instalments provided that new movies continue to roll off the production line.

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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