(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.
Inventory
Definition:
(n.) An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business.
(v. t.) To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock.
Example Sentences:
(1) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
(2) The purposes of this study were to assess the career development needs of entering medical students as measured by the Medical Career Development Inventory and to examine gender differences in responses to the inventory.
(3) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(4) The department of dietetics at a large teaching hospital has substantially reduced its food and labor costs through use of computerized systems that ensure efficient inventory management, recipe standardization, ingredient control, quantity and quality control, and identification of productive man-hours and appropriate staffing levels.
(5) Several recommendations, based upon the results of this survey study, the existing literature relevant to the ethical responsibilities of investigators who conduct research with children, and our own experiences with these instruments and populations, are made to assist researchers in their attempts to use these inventories in an ethical manner.
(6) Results indicate that great care should be taken in interpreting scores on depression inventories in patients with Parkinson's disease.
(7) The present investigation examines the assortative mating coefficients for scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) from five separate studies.
(8) Psychologic depression as measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) in a cohort of 2018 middle-aged men employed at the Western Electric Company in 1957-1958 was positively associated with 20-year incidence and mortality from cancer.
(9) In 1984 the press-fit condylar knee was first introduced and was intended to provide a condylar knee system primarily for posterior cruciate retention that addressed refinements in metallurgy, prosthetic geometry and sizing, cementless fixation, inventory management, and instrumentation.
(10) The students completed four scales from the Life Values Inventory: (i.e.
(11) The three counties sampled showed surprisingly little deviation in the percentages of inventories suggesting alcohol production and in the preferences for specific types of drinks.
(12) For any blood type, there is a complex interaction among the optimal inventory level, daily demand level, the transfusion to crossmatch ratio, the crossmatch release period and the age of arriving units that determine the shortage and outdate rate.
(13) The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory questionnaire, recently validated in Spanish, was used to measure the students' anxiety associated with the examinations.
(14) The Side Effects Profile (SEP) and Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) were used to collect data.
(15) The clinical validity of these PIC-R subscales was also compared to that of the Minnesota Child Development Inventory (MCDI).
(16) In addition to better understanding why adolescents begin using marihuana, the inventory is intended to assist drug educators target their programs.
(17) 24 hospitalized borderline patients were administered an Attachment Style Inventory and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory.
(18) Several motor, perceptual and attention tasks and the Washington Psychosocial Seizure Inventory were performed before and after STP administration.
(19) In a retrospective study of 50 consecutive dementia patients, the DAT Inventory correctly identified 100% of DAT subjects and 94% of non-DAT cases.
(20) The inventory consists of 11 narrow-band and two broad-band scales, the Behavioral and the Cognitive.