ARTIFICER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does artificer mean? 

• ARTIFICER (noun)
  The noun ARTIFICER has 3 senses:

1. someone who is the first to think of or make something

2. a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

3. an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.

  Familiarity information: ARTIFICER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTIFICER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is the first to think of or make something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

artificer; discoverer; inventor

Hypernyms ("artificer" is a kind of...):

creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "artificer"):

patentee (the inventor to whom a patent is issued)

Instance hyponyms:

Elmer Ambrose Sperry; Sperry (United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930))

Isaac M. Singer; Isaac Merrit Singer; Singer (United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875))

Elisha Graves Otis; Otis (United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861))

Eadweard Muybridge; Edward James Muggeridge; Muybridge (United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (born in England) (1830-1904))

Morse; Samuel F. B. Morse; Samuel Finley Breese Morse; Samuel Morse (United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872))

Mergenthaler; Ottmar Mergenthaler (United States inventor (born in Germany) of the Linotype machine (1854-1899))

Cyrus Hall McCormick; Cyrus McCormick; McCormick (United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884))

Maxim; Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916))

Mauser; P. P. von Mauser; Peter Paul Mauser; von Mauser (German arms manufacturer and inventor of a repeating rifle and pistol (1838-1914))

Langley; Samuel Pierpoint Langley (United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906))

Francis Edgar Stanley; Stanley (United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918))

Charles Proteus Steinmetz; Steinmetz (United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923))

Fox Talbot; Talbot; William Henry Fox Talbot (English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877))

Nikola Tesla; 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))

James Watt; Watt (Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819))

George Westinghouse; Westinghouse (United States inventor and manufacturer (1846-1914))

Sir Charles Wheatstone; Wheatstone (English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875))

Eli Whitney; Whitney (United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825))

Orville Wright; Wright (United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948))

Wilbur Wright; Wright (United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912))

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin; Zeppelin (German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917))

Fulton; Robert Fulton (American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815))

Alexander Bell; Alexander Graham Bell; Bell (United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922))

Bessemer; Sir Henry Bessemer (British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898))

Browning; John M. Browning; John Moses Browning (United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926))

Burroughs; William Seward Burroughs (United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898))

Bushnell; David Bushnell; Father of the Submarine (American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824))

Cartwright; Edmund Cartwright (English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823))

Daguerre; Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851))

De Forest; Father of Radio; 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))

Eastman; 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))

Edison; Thomas Alva Edison; Thomas Edison (United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931))

Din Land; Edwin Herbert Land; Land (United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991))

Gatling; Richard Jordan Gatling (United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903))

Gillette; King Camp Gilette (United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932))

Goldmark; Peter Carl Goldmark; Peter Goldmark (United 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 Goodyear; Goodyear (United States inventor of vulcanized rubber (1800-1860))

Hargreaves; James Hargreaves (English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778))

Hero; Hero of Alexandria; Heron (Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century))

Herman Hollerith; Hollerith (United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929))

Elias Howe; Howe (United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867))

Jacquard; Joseph M. Jacquard; Joseph Marie Jacquard (French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman

Hypernyms ("artificer" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "artificer"):

animal stuffer; stuffer; taxidermist (a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display)

paperer; paperhanger (one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper)

pipe fitter; plumber (a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances)

ceramicist; ceramist; potter; thrower (a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln)

rigger (someone who rigs ships)

roofer (a craftsman who lays or repairs roofs)

rope-maker; ropemaker; roper (a craftsman who makes ropes)

steamfitter (a craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating)

tanner (a craftsman who tans skins and hides)

bookbinder (a worker whose trade is binding books)

upholsterer (a craftsman who upholsters furniture)

weaver (a craftsman who weaves cloth)

welder (joins pieces of metal by welding them together)

window dresser; window trimmer (someone who decorates shop windows)

woodman; woodsman; woodworker (makes things out of wood)

wright (someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination))

beautician; cosmetician (someone who works in a beauty parlor)

mason; stonemason (a craftsman who works with stone or brick)

miller (someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill))

bricklayer (a craftsman skilled in building with bricks)

clockmaker; clocksmith (someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches)

coachbuilder (a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles)

construction worker; hard hat (a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc.)

barrel maker; cooper (a craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubs)

coppersmith (someone who makes articles from copper)

currier (a craftsman who curries leather for use)

glassblower (someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass)

glass-cutter; glass cutter; glassworker; glazer; glazier (someone who cuts flat glass to size)

gold-beater; goldbeater (an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf)

hairdresser; hairstylist; styler; stylist (someone who cuts or beautifies hair)

luthier (a craftsman who makes stringed instruments (as lutes or guitars or violins))

machinist; mechanic; shop mechanic (a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools)

die-sinker; diemaker; diesinker (someone who makes dies)

Instance hyponyms:

Morris; William Morris (English poet and craftsman (1834-1896))

Sense 3

Meaning:

An enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

armorer; armourer; artificer

Hypernyms ("artificer" is a kind of...):

enlisted man (a male enlisted person in the armed forces)