Invent vs Pioneer - What's the difference?
invent | pioneer |
To design a new process or mechanism.
To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
(obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:
One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
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(obsolete, military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
(Communism) A child of 10–16 years in the former Soviet Union, in the second of the three stages in becoming a member of the Communist Party.
As verbs the difference between invent and pioneer
is that invent is to design a new process or mechanism while pioneer is to go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.As a noun pioneer is
one who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.invent
English
Verb
(en verb)- After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
- I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.
- We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.
- Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].
Synonyms
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* * 1000 English basic wordspioneer
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}}
- Some people will consider their national heroes to be pioneers of civilization.
- Certain politicians can be considered as pioneers of reform.