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Noun discoverer has 2 senses
- inventor, discoverer, artificer - someone who is the first to think of or make something
--1 is a kind of creator
--1 has particulars: | | patentee; Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell; Bessemer, Sir Henry Bessemer; Browning, John M. Browning, John Moses Browning; Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs; Bushnell, David Bushnell, Father of the Submarine; Cartwright, Edmund Cartwright; Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre; De Forest, Lee De Forest, The Father of Radio; Eastman, George Eastman; Edison, Thomas Edison, Thomas Alva Edison; Fulton, Robert Fulton; Gatling, Richard Jordan Gatling; Gillette, King Camp Gilette; Goldmark, Peter Goldmark, Peter Carl Goldmark; Goodyear, Charles Goodyear; Hargreaves, James Hargreaves; Hero, Heron, Hero of Alexandria; Hollerith, Herman Hollerith; Howe, Elias Howe; Jacquard, Joseph M. Jacquard, Joseph Marie Jacquard; Land, Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land; Langley, Samuel Pierpoint Langley; Mauser, von Mauser, P. P. von Mauser, Peter Paul Mauser; Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim; McCormick, Cyrus McCormick, Cyrus Hall McCormick; Mergenthaler, Ottmar Mergenthaler; Morse, Samuel Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Morse; Muybridge, Eadweard Muybridge, Edward James Muggeridge; Otis, Elisha Graves Otis; Singer, Isaac M. Singer, Isaac Merrit Singer; Sperry, Elmer Ambrose Sperry; Stanley, Francis Edgar Stanley; Steinmetz, Charles Proteus Steinmetz; Talbot, Fox Talbot, William Henry Fox Talbot; Tesla, Nikola Tesla; Watt, James Watt; Westinghouse, George Westinghouse; Wheatstone, Sir Charles Wheatstone; Whitney, Eli Whitney; Wright, Orville Wright; Wright, Wilbur Wright; Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
- finder, discoverer, spotter - someone who is the first to observe something
--2 is a kind of perceiver, observer, beholder
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