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What's The Definition Of Invent?
[v] come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
[v] make up something artificial or untrue Synonyms | Synonyms for Invent: contrive | cook up | devise | excogitate | fabricate | forge | formulate | make up | manufacture Related Terms | Find terms related to Invent: beget | break ground | break the ice | breed | bring forth | bring into being | call into being | coin | conceit | conceive | conceptualize | concoct | contrive | cook up | counterfeit | create | design | determine | develop | devise | discover | dream up | engender | envision | evolve | experience imaginatively | fabricate | fake | fancy | fantasize | fictionalize | find | find out | forge | formulate | frame | fudge | generate | get | give being to | give rise to | hatch | hatch up | head | head up | hit | hit upon | hoke up | hunt down | ideate | imagine | improvise | inaugurate | initiate | innovate | introduce | introduce new blood | lead | lead off | lead the way | locate | make do with | make innovations | make up | manufacture | mature | mint | mold | neologize | neoterize | originate | pioneer | plan | precede | procreate | produce | rediscover | renew | renovate | revolutionize | run down | run to earth | shape | spawn | stand first | strike | strike out | suppose | take the initiative | take the lead | take the plunge | think out | think up | trace | trace down | track down | trump up | turn out | vamp up See Also | concoct | confabulate | create by mental act | create mentally | dream up | hatch | mythologise | mythologize | spin | think of | think up | trump up | vamp | vamp up Invent In Webster's Dictionary \In*vent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Invented}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Inventing}.] [L. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come
upon, to find, invent; pref. in- in + venire to come, akin to
E. come: cf. F. inventer. See {Come}.]
1. To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.]
And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or
dead she did invent. --Spenser.
2. 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.
Thus first Necessity invented stools. --Cowper.
3. 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.
Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. --Milton.
He had invented some circumstances, and put the
worst possible construction on others. --Sir W.
Scott.
Syn: To discover; contrive; devise; frame; design; fabricate;
concoct; elaborate. See {Discover}.
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