DISCOVERERS Synonyms

• an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)

• any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner

• rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave

• electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity

• a commercial browser developed by Microsoft

• someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

• open up an area or prepare a way

• take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of

• open up and explore a new area

• a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

• a Boy Scout or Girl Scout

• someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)

• someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

• explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody

• someone making a search or inquiry

• a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items

• large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America

• an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures

• someone who conducts a statistical survey

• someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea)

• someone who is the first to think of or make something

• a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

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

• someone who comes upon something after searching

• someone who is the first to observe something

• optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest

• someone who is the first to think of or make something

• a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots

• a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers)

• a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

• someone who is the first to observe something