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invent

[ in-vent ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance:

    to invent the telegraph.

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  2. to produce or create with the imagination:

    to invent a story.

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  3. to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false):

    to invent excuses.

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  4. Archaic. to come upon; find.


invent

/ ɪˈɛԳ /

verb

  1. to create or devise (new ideas, machines, etc)
  2. to make up (falsehoods); fabricate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԳپ, adjective
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Other Word Forms

  • ·Գi· ·Գa· adjective
  • dzܳi·Գ verb (used with object)
  • i·Գ verb (used with object)
  • -·ԳĻ adjective
  • ܲi·ԳĻ adjective
  • ɱ-·ԳĻ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of invent1

First recorded in 1425–75; back formation from late Middle English invented (past participle) “found, discovered,” from Latin invent(us) “encountered” (past participle of Աī “to come upon, encounter, find,” from in- in- 2 + ī “to come”; come ) + -ed 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of invent1

C15: from Latin Աī to find, come upon, from in- ² + ī to come
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She invented a new identity - Raymond Lloyd - and disguised herself with a wig, body suit and "croaky" voice.

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“They invented a fiction and placed us in there as if we were characters in a badly written novel,” she said this week.

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Green, an L.A-based playwright on the rise, may seem to be inventing her own rules for theatrical storytelling, but she is simultaneously working in a rich theatrical tradition.

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These tiny wafers of silicon, known as chips, were invented in the United States, but today, it is in Asia that the most advanced chips are being produced at phenomenal scale.

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He has invented a self-sharpening drill — the Bit Magician! — and he’s eager to sell it to an aerospace company down the road.

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