Instigator - English meaning

noun

A person who is qualified to design buildings and to plan and supervise their construction.

Usage examples:

An architect takes into consideration all of the constraints involved in building a house

verb

A person who designs buildings and in many cases also supervises their construction.

Usage examples:

The great norman architect of durham cathedral

noun

A person who designs new buildings and is responsible for how they are built

Usage examples:

Doug and wendy worked with an architect to create their dream home., fig. president roosevelt was t…

noun

A writer of a book, article, or document.

Usage examples:

He is the author of several books on the subject

verb

Be the author of (a book or piece of writing).

Usage examples:

She has authored several articles on wildlife

noun

A person or thing that brings something into existence.

Usage examples:

James bond's creator ian fleming

noun

A person who creates something

noun

A person who plans the look or workings of something prior to it being made, by preparing drawings or plans.

Usage examples:

A leading car designer

adjective

Made or designed by a famous and prestigious fashion designer.

Usage examples:

Designer clothes

adjective

Artificially created or modified (especially by genetic engineering) to have a particular appearance, function, or composition.

Usage examples:

Designer drugs

noun

A man in relation to his child or children.

Usage examples:

Margaret's father died at an early age

verb

(of a man) cause a pregnancy resulting in the birth of (a child).

Usage examples:

He fathered three children

noun

A male parent

Usage examples:

My father retired seven years ago., freud was the father of psychoanalysis., father randall, are yo…

noun

A person who manufactures articles of cast metal; the owner or operator of a foundry.

Usage examples:

An iron founder

noun

A person who establishes an institution or settlement.

Usage examples:

He was the founder of modern costa rica

verb

(of a ship) fill with water and sink.

Usage examples:

Six drowned when the yacht foundered off the cornish coast

noun

A person or thing that initiates someone or something.

Usage examples:

As initiators of culture and producers of the societies in which we live, the destiny of modern man…

noun

A person who causes something to begin

Usage examples:

She was one of the project's initiators.

noun

A person who invented a particular process or device or who invents things as an occupation.

Usage examples:

One of the schemes will help women inventors and innovators to develop their ideas and skills.

noun

Someone who designs or creates something that did not exist before

Usage examples:

Alfred nobel was the inventor of dynamite.

noun

Someone who has invented something, or whose job is to invent things

Usage examples:

The inventor of sth thomas edison was the inventor of the electric light bulb.

noun

A person or thing that makes or produces something.

Usage examples:

Film-makers

suffix

A person, company, or machine that makes a particular thing

Usage examples:

Who are the policy-makers in the department?, a coffee-maker, makers of the latest mobile email dev…

noun

A person with an outstanding intellect.

Usage examples:

An eminent musical mastermind

verb

Plan and direct (an ingenious and complex scheme or enterprise).

Usage examples:

He was accused of masterminding a gold-smuggling racket

verb

To plan and direct a difficult activity

Usage examples:

Oliver masterminded the takeover of his top business competitor., the mastermind behind the escape …

noun

A woman in relation to her child or children.

Usage examples:

She returned to bristol to nurse her ageing mother

verb

Bring up (a child) with care and affection.

Usage examples:

She didn't know how to mother my brother and he was very sensitive

noun

A female parent

Usage examples:

My mother was 20 when i was born., mother, where’s my red blouse?, they got caught in a mother of a…

noun

Something that provides a reason or stimulus to do something.

Usage examples:

Fear is a powerful motivator

noun

A person or thing that makes someone enthusiastic about doing something

Usage examples:

A great/powerful/strong motivator money is a great motivator., the teacher was a passionate motivat…

noun

A person who creates or initiates something.

Usage examples:

Wegener was the originator of the theory of continental drift

noun

The person who first thinks of something and causes it to happen

Usage examples:

There are lots of reasons why the inventor or originator of an idea may not get the lion's share of…

noun

A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.

Usage examples:

The decision came a month before the start of the winter olympics in utah and can be expected to pu…

verb

Develop or be the first to use or apply (a new method, area of knowledge, or activity).

Usage examples:

The technique was pioneered by a swiss doctor in the 1930s

proper noun

A series of american space probes launched between 1958 and 1973, two of which provided the first clear pictures of jupiter and saturn (1973–9).

noun

A person who makes plans.

Usage examples:

Economic planners

noun

A person whose job is to plan something, esp. how land in a particular area is to be used and what should be built on it

Usage examples:

A city planner, an urban planner

noun

Someone whose job is to make decisions relating to the future of an activity or industry

Usage examples:

A financial/project/strategic planner, a city/town/urban planner, a wall/desk planner

noun

A person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale.

Usage examples:

An oil producer

noun

A company, country, or person that makes things, usually for sale, esp. things made by an industrial process or grown or obtained from the ground

Usage examples:

A producer of automobiles/wheat

noun

A country, company, or person that makes goods or that grows food in large amounts

Usage examples:

A producer of sth the group is the world's biggest producer of copper, supplying around 6% of globa…