2022年4月11日 星期一

innovate, instrument, innovative (UK ALSO innovatory), Fire and Light, light a fire under someone



Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World 




Peter Drucker, the management guru who wrote the classic Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 1985, saw innovation as “change that creates a new dimension of performance.” And, Drucker wrote, “Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship … the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”


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However, the strangest thing is the in at least one way, Christ also equates fire with darkness. ... After the Bible, the most common Greek word for light (phos) began to be used to mean "illumination of the mind", which may have come from its ...

light a fire under someone は何か: to get someone to act quickly or forcefully, esp. someone who has not been doing enough before



innovate 
verb [I]
to introduce changes and new ideas:
The fashion industry is always desperate to innovate.
━━ v. 革新[刷新]する ((in, on, upon)).
in・no・va・tion ━━ n. 改革, 革新; 新しいもの; 新制度.
in・no・va・tive, in・no・va・to・ry
 ━━ a. 革新的な, 創造的な.

innovative
adjective (UK ALSO innovatory)
using new methods or ideas:
innovative ideas/methods
She was an imaginative and innovative manager.


adjective. Characterized by or productive of new things or new ideas: creative, ingenious, innovative, inventive, original.


innovation 
noun [C or U]
(the use of) a new idea or method:
the latest innovations in computer technology

innovator 
noun [C]


instrument
n.
  1. A means by which something is done; an agency.
  2. One used by another to accomplish a purpose; a dupe.
  3. An implement used to facilitate work. See synonyms at tool.
  4. A device for recording, measuring, or controlling, especially such a device functioning as part of a control system.
  5. Music. A device for playing or producing music: a keyboard instrument.
  6. A legal document, such as a deed, will, mortgage, or insurance policy.
tr.v., -ment·ed, -ment·ing, -ments. (-mĕnt')
  1. To provide or equip with instruments.
  2. Music. To compose or arrange for performance.
  3. To address a legal document to.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin īnstrūmentum, tool, implement, from īnstruere, to prepare. See instruct.]

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