Invent

[ɪn'vent] or [ɪn'vɛnt]

Definition

(verb.) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; 'excogitate a way to measure the speed of light'.

Checker: Reginald--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

(v. t.) To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.

(v. t.) To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.

Edited by Anselm

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Contrive (what did not before exist), devise, be the first to contrive or devise.[2]. Originate, frame, imagine, conceive, concoct.[3]. Fabricate, forge, coin.

Checker: Micawber

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Discover, contrive, concoct, imagine, elaborate, conceive, design, devise,fabricate, originate, find_out, frame, forge, feign

ANT:Imitate, copy, execute, reproduce

Edited by Daniel

Definition

v.t. to devise or contrive: to make: to frame: to fabricate: to forge.—adj. Inven′tible.—n. Inven′tion that which is invented: contrivance: a deceit: power or faculty of inventing: ability displayed by any invention or effort of the imagination.—adj. Inven′tive able to invent: ready in contrivance.—adv. Inven′tively.—ns. Inven′tiveness; Inven′tor Inven′ter one who invents or finds out something new:—fem. Inven′tress.—Invention of the Cross a festival observed on May 3 in commemoration of the alleged discovery of the true cross at Jerusalem in 326 by Helena mother of Constantine the Great.

Checker: Lorenzo

Examples

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