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scientist

['sai ..n tist] = /ˈsaɪəntɪst/
  1. A scientist is a person who is an expert in one of the sciences: biology, physics, chemistry, history, etc. Scientists study the world, do experiments, create theories, and write about them in papers.
    Nobody understands the scientist’s theories, but everybody thinks that they are very clever.
    The mad scientist built a time machine but he did not know how to operate it.
    After many years of research, scientists found out that women like to buy expensive clothes.
    Even in his early childhood, Dexter wanted to be a scientist, and that is why his parents gave him scientific books instead of toys.