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# inventor

«inventor» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a person who thinks of and makes something new that did…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an inventor, inventors)

### meaning for a pupil

An inventor is a person who thinks of and makes something new that did not exist before, such as a machine, tool or way of doing something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inventor/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Some scholars say the Hebrews, through the ten Sefirot of Sefer Yetzirah, were the inventors of our number system. In the primary lessons: In science and history lessons, pupils learn about inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell (the telephone), the Wright brothers (the aeroplane) and many others, and that inventions often build on earlier ideas and many tries. In design and technology, pupils are inventors when they design and test their own ideas. Phrases: a famous inventor, young inventor, the inventor of.

### examples

- 15) As the Arabic numeral system of notation apparently originated from the Selirot philosophy of the Sefer Yetzirah, it is proper to share the view of those who claim the Hebrews as its inventors (E. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inventor/#x1)
- Thomas Edison was a famous inventor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inventor/#x2)
- The inventor of the telephone was Alexander Graham Bell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inventor/#x3)
- Our class held a young inventors' fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inventor/#x4)
- The inventor tested his machine many times before it worked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inventor/#x5)
- She wants to be an inventor when she grows up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inventor/#x6)
- Many inventors fail many times before they succeed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inventor/#x7)
- A capital toast was drunk to the inventor of the soup, and some one said he ought to be made a relieving officer to the poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inventor/#x8)

### note

Countable: inventors («an» before the vowel). Verb: invent; noun for the thing: invention. To invent is to make something new; to discover is to find something that already existed (Columbus did not invent America; electricity was discovered, the light bulb was invented).

### In the corpora

- [Inventors build on earlier ideas: the bicycle needed the wheel, and the car needed both the wheel and the engine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inventor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inventor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.