Català > descobridor: 2 sentits > nom 1, person | Sentit | someone who is the first to think of or make something. |
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| Sinònims | artífex, inventor |
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| Espècimens | Alexander Graham Bell | United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone / telephone (1847-1922) |
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| Bessemer | British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898) |
| Bushnell, David Bushnell | American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824) |
| Charles Goodyear, Goodyear | United States inventor of vulcanized rubber (1800-1860) |
| Charles Proteus Steinmetz | United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923) |
| Cyrus McCormick | United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884) |
| Daguerre, Louis Daguerre | French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851) |
| Eadweard Muybridge | United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures / pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (born in England) (1830-1904) |
| Edison, Thomas Alva Edison, Thomas Edison | United States inventor |
| Edmund Cartwright | English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823) |
| Eli Whitney, Whitney | United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) |
| Elias Howe | United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867) |
| Elisha Graves Otis | United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861) |
| Elmer Ambrose Sperry | United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930) |
| George Eastman | United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932) |
| George Westinghouse | United States inventor and manufacturer (1846-1914) |
| Herman Hollerith | United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929) |
| James Hargreaves | English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778) |
| James Watt | Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819) |
| John Moses Browning | United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926) |
| Joseph Marie Jacquard | French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834) |
| Lee De Forest | United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961) |
| Maxim | English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916) |
| Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Samuel Morse | United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872) |
| Nikola Tesla | United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943) |
| Ottmar Mergenthaler | United States inventor (born in Germany) of the Linotype machine (1854-1899) |
| Richard Jordan Gatling | United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903) |
| Robert Fulton | American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815) |
| Stanley | United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918) |
| Wilbur Wright, Wright | United States aviation / aviation / aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912) |
| William Henry Fox Talbot | English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877) |
| William Seward Burroughs | United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898) |
| General | creador | A person who grows or makes or invents / invents things |
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| Anglès | inventor, discoverer, artificer |
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| Espanyol | artífice, autor, descubridor, inventor |
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| Verbs | descobrir, trobar | make a discovery, make a new finding |
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| falsificar, formular, idear, inventar, preveure, tramar | come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort / effort |
Català > descobridor: 2 sentits > nom 2, person | Sentit | someone who is the first to observe something. |
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| Específic | codescobridor | someone who is the first of two or more people to discover something |
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| General | espectador, observador | A person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses |
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| Anglès | finder, discoverer, spotter |
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| Espanyol | descubridor |
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| Verbs | advertir, apreciar, descobrir, detectar, observar, trobar | Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of |
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| afigurar, aguaitar, albirar, ataüllar, descobrir, espiar, observar, sotjar | Catch sight of |
| ensopegar, trobar-se, trobar | come upon, as if by accident |
| presenciar, testificar, testimoniar, veure | perceive or be contemporaneous with |
| recuperar, trobar | come upon after searching |
