inventor
noun
a person who invents, especially one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.
inventer
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a variation of
inventor.
Example Sentences
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First patented as a container for oysters by a Chicago inventer called Frederick Weeks Wilcox, the design hasn’t changed since.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2014
US inventer Thomas Edison was renowned for the sheer number of his patents.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2012
He was something of an inventer and invented a time clock, but the patent was stolen by another and he never got the credit for inventing it.
From The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
Il faudrait les inventer, those hooks, on purpose for me alone, for, if you only knew, Alyosha, what a blackguard I am.”
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In the first edition, the inventer is erroneously stated to be Edward Howard.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 565, September 8, 1832 by Various
