What's the difference between invent and inventor?

Invent


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
  • (v. t.) To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.
  • (v. t.) To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the things Yang has said he wants to investigate is: "This state we're in ... a moment when we have to negotiate our past while inventing our present."
  • (2) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
  • (3) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
  • (4) Since its invention a few years ago, the atomic force microscope has become one of the most widely used near-field microscopes.
  • (5) No, Did they invent sliding fingers across substances?
  • (6) They just lacked the invention to find a way through.
  • (7) Three times a week, he rolled his wheelchair up to a computer monitor and allowed scientists from Battelle , a nonprofit research organisation that invented the technology they hoped would let him move his hand with his thoughts again, to plug into his brain.
  • (8) The cecal foramen pointer was invented for a Sistrunk median cervical cyst operation.
  • (9) Inside, the tiles and the stained glass are said to be perfection, matched against murals that depict the inventions of the industrial revolution and the signing of the Magna Carta.
  • (10) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
  • (11) The words you attribute to Mr Mitchell are an invention and they were invented for the same reason – because you could not conceivably have justified giving a Public Order Act warning on what Mr Mitchell actually said.” Rowland said: “No, the evidence I have given is the truth.
  • (12) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
  • (13) Apple has used the month of January to launch revolutionary products before, in part as a way of diverting attention from its rivals presenting their latest inventions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which Apple does not attend, and that takes place the same month.
  • (14) Southampton remained the more inventive in the second half.
  • (15) Holden Caulfield puts it in a slightly different way: "I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented.
  • (16) "I used to hate lions," he adds, "but now, because my invention is saving my father's cows and the lions, we are able to stay with the lions without any conflict."
  • (17) After that is accomplished I will change all history books to say that I have invented the frisbee and that this is the most important invention ever.
  • (18) With the invention of the laser, many clinical disciplines have taken advantage of this new energy source.
  • (19) At last, as we have found, also in Ethiopia, stone-tools more than three million years old in association with Australopithecus, it seems that the very first made tools were the invention of prehumans who did not have yet the hands completely free from locomotion.
  • (20) It captures the fact that the eclectic and inventive Adams - who cut his compositional teeth as a member of the minimalist school in the 1970s and 1980s, and then moved on into less strict forms of tonal music - is almost certainly America's most widely performed contemporary composer.

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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