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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.

Archaic. to come upon; find.

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Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English invented (past participle) found, discovered (see -ed²) < Latin inventus, past participle of invenīre to encounter, come upon, find, equivalent to in- in-² + ven(īre) to come + -tus past participle suffix

Related forms

in·vent·i·ble, in·vent·a·ble, adjective

out·in·vent, verb (used with object)

pre·in·vent, verb (used with object)

self-in·vent·ed, adjective

un·in·vent·ed, adjective

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well-in·vent·ed, adjective

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Synonyms
1. devise, contrive. See discover. 2. imagine, conceive. 3. concoct.

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Dangerous bacteria are developing resistance to existing antibiotics faster than humans can invent or discover new drugs.

Small companies invent the future, big companies buy it.

Chemists are usually asked to invent a solution, but without considering hazardous by-products.

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Dangerous bacteria are developing resistance to existing antibiotics faster than humans can invent or discover new drugs.

Small companies invent the future, big companies buy it.

Chemists are usually asked to invent a solution, but without considering hazardous by-products.

Uhl helped invent a shoulder-fired rocket launcher that became an effective weapon against.

Before you can become a god and invent your own world, you have to become a cartographer.

Now, they are awarded to the first to invent a product or idea.

We had to invent our games, invent our toys, because there were no toys.

Say, for example, you invent a four-legged swivel chair.

He could invent grammar and rules that had never been used before.

We can refashion old positions to attract diverse hires or invent new positions.

As far as the product is concerned, the innovation required in a period of crisis is not to invent something different.

The gecko's amazing sticky toes inspired scientists to invent a wall-climbing robot.

Recent studies suggest they were imaginative enough to carve artful objects and perhaps clever enough to invent a language.

Rather than enforcing civil order on the high seas, invent the robot naval water-cannon.

The success of an economy depends on its ability to invent and embrace a new set of instructions.

Invent some combination thing that will let you explore ideas about what the various fields you're.

Without patents to protect their creations, inventors would have little incentive to invent.

Ask students to invent names for imaginary prehistoric sea creatures using three word parts.

We humans would be liberated from our past instincts and free to invent entirely new cultural forms.

She wanted viewers to be able to invent their own stories to suit the scene, perhaps even insert themselves in it.

Now, he's helping invent a whole new visual aesthetic that digitally combines still photos with moving images, seamlessly.

And they invent new ways of working with television technology.

Journalism schools are also trying to give students the tools they need to invent new models of the profession.

So they are trying to invent a whole new technology for harvesting wind:.

Students should identify a problem or challenge and invent a tool that could help provide information that can solve the problem.

And we'll have to invent a megaverse, then an ultraverse the quest goes on.

The news and entertainment media tend to invent a fictional world that justifies and elevates their counter-position to.

In reality, those musicians are relying on an intricate set of musical patterns, which allow them to invent beauty in real time.

In this open city, it seems so easy to feel that you can invent yourself and create a unique life.

The problem is that the for-profits did not invent any of this.

Yet the constant need for members of guilds to rely on each other and invent as they go keeps them increasingly engaged.

Once you invent the car, you can't go back to the horse.

Gel-Mann did not invent the idea of antimatter as matter going back in time.

Children in playgrounds invent their own physical games every day.

Don't bother to invent things, kids, and certainly don't market them.

If you're going to invent your own life, if you're going to be truly autonomous, you also need courage: moral courage.

Ironically, another legacy may be to blame: income-tax withholding, which he helped to invent during the second world war.

Eddy loves to invent things, and he is confident that he will win the science fair he is competing in.

We have the technology to invent new ways of transportation and other sources of energy.

If only somebody would invent a small robot that moved autonomously around the house and cleaned the floors.

Anderson, and persuading him to help her invent a better place to work on her.

When their business model is collapsing, they need the freedom to invent a new one.

There is a difference between who actually invent things and who take science for a ride.

Imagine a band of ancestral hominids about to invent language.

There are enough legitimate ways to combat the anti-vaccine movement without our having to invent one.

We then did our best to invent capabilities and learning experiences that helped address those challenges.

Leeuwenhoek did not actually invent the microscope.

Challenge students to invent three new scientific terms and write a dictionary entry for each one.

Scientists did not invent the vast majority of visual illusions.

Wells that they became rocket scientists so they could invent the technology that.

The alchemists of old sought to transmute base metals into gold and to invent a potion that would confer.

We are not alone in our ability to invent or plan or to contemplate ourselves-or even to plot and lie.

Now, more money is going to spent trying to invent something to stop this catastrophe.

They invent fantastic bullets that never really catch on.

Businesses cannot invent the future-their own future-without taking risks.

It's de?nitely not the type of system you would invent if you were designing it.

If they invent a dreary collection panel, then it'd be worthwhile.

If you could snap your fingers and invent something that would cure a pressing global problem, what would it.

These well-intentioned groups certainly did not invent the idea of good corporate citizenship, which goes back a long way.

If he were inventing, he wouldn't invent the chimpanzee's swollen belly.

The key factor to understand anything is to invent certain thing of the same level.

It goes through a constant process of discombobulation as entrepreneurs invent new products and processes.

Keeping the web universal and keeping its standards open help people invent new services.

Now that re-engineering foreign drugs is becoming illegal, local pharmaceutical companies are starting to invent their own.

Homo erectus wasn't dumb enough to invent the internet.

Indeed, he commercialised but did not invent the light bulb.

They did'nt invent gas/diesel combustion fuel till much later.

We joined our profession to discover economic truths, not to invent them.

But those who invent and those who use these technologies point to the potential advantages.

Monsanto didn't invent seeds of nature although it sounds that way.

When they try to set standards or invent stuff, they fail.

Dozens of people are convicted each year, though hearsay is often used as evidence and accusers invent verbal transgressions.

So you invent scrubbers which can be done by nature alone by restoring farmable land and reduction in wood usage.

There's no need to invent new technology for carbon capture.

Scientists who are being overpaid have to invent ways to make everything look bad in order to keep receiving paychecks.

His role was to invent large ideas before society even knew that they wanted them.

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World English Dictionary

invent (ɪnˈvɛnt)

—vb
1.	to create or devise (new ideas, machines, etc)
2.	to make up (falsehoods); fabricate

[C15: from Latin invenīre to find, come upon, from in-² + venīre to come]

in'ventible

—*adj*

in'ventable

—*adj*

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"There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity."

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