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invent
[ in-vent ]
verb (used with object)
- to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance:
to invent the telegraph.
- to produce or create with the imagination:
to invent a story.
- to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false):
to invent excuses.
Synonyms: concoct
- Archaic. to come upon; find.
invent
/ ɪnˈvɛnt /
verb
- to create or devise (new ideas, machines, etc)
- to make up (falsehoods); fabricate
Derived Forms
- inˈventible, adjective
Other Words From
- in·venti·ble in·venta·ble adjective
- outin·vent verb (used with object)
- prein·vent verb (used with object)
- self-in·vented adjective
- unin·vented adjective
- well-in·vented adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of invent1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
If putting the purpose of a business at the heart of corporate law does all of that, one might well wonder why we invented the corporation in the first place.
In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor invented an algorithm, that if run on a sufficiently powerful quantum computer, would easily find these two primes.
It was a British TV company that wanted him to invent a language for monsters with no lips, just big teeth, in a new fantasy series, Beowulf.
By September, the Justice Department drops all charges after it is revealed that the schematics were of an entirely different device that Xi had invented.
His goal is to refine and commercialize technology, rather than invent anything entirely new.
I still do find it a tremendously useful device to invent a character and have the character sing the song.
As a Harvard undergraduate, he used systolic blood pressure readings to invent the lie detector test.
Did McCarthy invent the portrayal of violence in fiction, or should that laurel go to Homer?
Reform first came in 1935 when Lenora Slaughter was hired to re-invent the pageant as its new director.
By using an alter ego, he liberates himself, relaxes himself so he can invent freely.
I add nothing to the “Extremes,” import nothing from abroad in regard to them, invent nothing.
As if there were not enough real tragedy in the world and it were necessary to invent!
Controve, compose or invent tunes, foule fayle, fail miserably.
She might have invented a pretext for staying away; she might even invent a pretext now for going.
If a man prefers not to speak of himself or of his doings, his enemies will soon invent some tale of their own.
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