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1. (v.t.) invent
to originate as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance:
to invent a better mousetrap.
2. invent
to produce or create with the imagination:
to invent a story.
3. invent
to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false):
to invent excuses.
4. invent
Archaic. to come upon; find.
Etymology: (1425–75; late ME invented (ptp.) discovered < L invenīre to encounter, come upon, find =in-in -2+venīre to come)
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1. (verb) invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge
come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
"excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
2. (verb) fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, invent
make up something artificial or untrue
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1. (verb) invent
to create or devise sth new
Who invented the telephone?
2. invent
to think up sth that is not true
He invented some excuse about his car breaking down.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (verb) invent
to come or light upon; to meet; to find
2. (verb) invent
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
3. (verb) invent
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
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Sense: to be the first person to make or use (eg a machine, method etc)
Who invented the microscope?; When was printing invented?
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 Afrikaans: ontwerp |
 Arabic: يَخْتَرِع |
 Bulgarian: изобретявам |
 Brazilian: inventar |
 Czech: vynalézt |
 German: erfinden |
 Danish: opfinde |
 Greek: εφευρίσκω |
 Spanish: inventar |
 Estonian: leiutama |
 Farsi: اختراع کردن |
 Finnish: keksiä |
 French: inventer |
 Hebrew: לְהַמצִיא |
 Hindi: आविष्कार करना |
 Croatian: izumiti |
 Hungarian: feltalál |
 Indonesian: menciptakan |
 Icelandic: finna upp |
 Italian: inventare |
 Japanese: 発明する |
 Korean: 발명하다 |
 Lithuanian: išrasti |
 Latvian: izgudrot |
 Malay: mencipta |
 Dutch: uitvinden |
 Norwegian: finne opp |
 Polish: wynaleźć |
 Persian: اختراع کردن |
 Pashto: اختراع كول |
 Portuguese: inventar |
 Romanian: a inventa |
 Russian: изобретать |
 Slovak: vynájsť |
 Slovenian: izumiti |
 Serbian: izmisliti |
 Swedish: uppfinna |
 Thai: ประดิษฐ์ |
 Turkish: icat etmek, bulmak |
 Taiwanese: 發明 |
 Ukrainian: винаходити, першим створю |
 Urdu: ایجاد کرنا |
 Vietnamese: phát minh |
 Chinese: 发明 |
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