| 单词 | artificer |
| 释义 | artificer (once / 3675 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY artificer: artificers USAGE EXAMPLES“Master Artificer,” grumbled Kilvin without looking up from the tabletop. Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind(2007) The Guild of Artificers is filling the world with automata, and the impact of robotized labor on the various empires has unexpected results. Forbes(Aug 20, 2014) The central event in this complicated legend concerns Icarus and his father Daedalus, a brilliant artificer. The Guardian(Feb 11, 2013) 1 1n a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper artisan, craftsman, journeyman William Morris English poet and craftsman (1834-1896) Thomas Chippendalea British cabinetmaker remembered for his graceful designs (especially of chairs) which influenced his contemporaries (1718-1779) Joseph(New Testament) husband of Mary and (in Christian belief) the foster father of Jesus Josiah SpodeEnglish potter who started a pottery famous for its bone china (1754-1827) Seth ThomasUnited States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859) Josiah WedgwoodEnglish potter (1730-1795) beautician, cosmetician someone who works in a beauty parlor bookbindera worker whose trade is binding books bricklayera craftsman skilled in building with bricks clockmaker, clocksmithsomeone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches coachbuildera craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles construction worker, hard hata worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. barrel maker, coopera craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubs coppersmithsomeone who makes articles from copper curriera craftsman who curries leather for use die-sinker, diemaker, diesinkersomeone who makes dies glassblowersomeone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass glass cutter, glass-cutter, glassworker, glazer, glaziersomeone who cuts flat glass to size gold-beater, goldbeateran artisan who beats gold into gold leaf hairdresser, hairstylist, styler, stylistsomeone who cuts or beautifies hair luthiera craftsman who makes stringed instruments (as lutes or guitars or violins) machinist, mechanic, shop mechanica craftsman skilled in operating machine tools mason, stonemasona craftsman who works with stone or brick millersomeone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill) paperer, paperhangerone whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper pipe fitter, plumbera craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances ceramicist, ceramist, potter, throwera craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln riggersomeone who rigs ships roofera craftsman who lays or repairs roofs rope-maker, ropemaker, ropera craftsman who makes ropes steamfittera craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating tannera craftsman who tans skins and hides animal stuffer, stuffer, taxidermista craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display upholsterera craftsman who upholsters furniture weavera craftsman who weaves cloth welderjoins pieces of metal by welding them together window dresser, window trimmersomeone who decorates shop windows woodman, woodsman, woodworkermakes things out of wood wrightsomeone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination) barbera hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade cabinetmaker, furniture makera woodworker who specializes in making furniture carpentera woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects cartwrighta workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons coiffeura man hairdresser coiffeusea woman hairdresser joinera woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood manicurista beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails millwrighta workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery ploughwright, plowwrighta workman who makes and repairs plows ship builder, shipbuilder, shipwrighta carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels splicera woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice spot welder, spot-weldera welder who does spot welding thatchersomeone skilled in making a roof from plant stalks or foliage tintera hairdresser who tints hair waggonwright, wagonwright, wainwrighta wagon maker wheeler, wheelwrightsomeone who makes and repairs wooden wheels carver, woodcarvermakes decorative wooden panels skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker a worker who has acquired special skills 2n someone who is the first to think of or make something 2Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper discoverer, inventor Alexander Graham Bell United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922) Sir Henry BessemerBritish inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898) John Moses BrowningUnited States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926) William Seward BurroughsUnited States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898) Father of the SubmarineAmerican inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824) Edmund CartwrightEnglish clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823) Louis Jacques Mande DaguerreFrench inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851) Father of RadioUnited States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961) George EastmanUnited 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) Thomas Alva EdisonUnited States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931) Robert FultonAmerican inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815) Richard Jordan GatlingUnited States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903) King Camp GiletteUnited States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932) Peter Carl GoldmarkUnited States inventor (born in Hungary) who made the first TV broadcast in 1940 and invented the long-playing record in 1948 and pioneered videocassette recording (1906-1977) Charles GoodyearUnited States inventor of vulcanized rubber (1800-1860) James HargreavesEnglish inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778) Hero of AlexandriaGreek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) Herman HollerithUnited States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929) Elias HoweUnited States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867) Joseph Marie JacquardFrench inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834) Edwin Herbert LandUnited States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991) Samuel Pierpoint LangleyUnited States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906) Peter Paul MauserGerman arms manufacturer and inventor of a repeating rifle and pistol (1838-1914) Sir Hiram Stevens MaximEnglish inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916) Cyrus Hall McCormickUnited States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884) Ottmar MergenthalerUnited States inventor (born in Germany) of the Linotype machine (1854-1899) Samuel Finley Breese MorseUnited States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872) Edward James MuggeridgeUnited States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (born in England) (1830-1904) Elisha Graves OtisUnited States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861) Isaac Merrit SingerUnited States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875) Elmer Ambrose SperryUnited States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930) Francis Edgar StanleyUnited States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918) Charles Proteus SteinmetzUnited States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923) William Henry Fox TalbotEnglish inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877) Nikola TeslaUnited 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) James WattScottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819) George WestinghouseUnited States inventor and manufacturer (1846-1914) Sir Charles WheatstoneEnglish physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875) Eli WhitneyUnited States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) Orville WrightUnited States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948) Wilbur WrightUnited States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912) Count Ferdinand von ZeppelinGerman inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917) patentee the inventor to whom a patent is issued creator a person who grows or makes or invents things n an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. Syn|Hyper armorer, armourer enlisted man a male enlisted person in the armed forces |
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