Definitions for invent
ɪnˈvɛntin·vent

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge(verb)

   come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

   "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

2. fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, invent(verb)

   make up something artificial or untrue

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. invent(Verb)

   To design a new process or mechanism.

   After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.

2. invent(Verb)

   To create something fictional for a particular purpose.

3. invent(Verb)

   To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.

Origin: From inventen, from inventer, from inventus, perfect passive participle of invenio, from in + venio; see venture. Compare advent, covent, event, prevent, etc.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Invent(verb)

   to come or light upon; to meet; to find

2. Invent(verb)

   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. Invent(verb)

   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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Invent

   in-vent′, v.t. to devise or contrive: to make: to frame: to fabricate: to forge.—adj. Inven′tible.—n. Inven′tion, that which is invented: contrivance: a deceit: power or faculty of inventing: ability displayed by any invention or effort of the imagination.—adj. Inven′tive, able to invent: ready in contrivance.—adv. Inven′tively.—ns. Inven′tiveness; Inven′tor, Inven′ter, one who invents or finds out something new:—fem. Inven′tress.—Invention of the Cross, a festival observed on May 3, in commemoration of the alleged discovery of the true cross at Jerusalem in 326 by Helena, mother of Constantine the Great. [Fr.,—L. invenīre, inventum—in, upon, venīre, to come.]

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'invent' in Verbs Frequency: #752

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of invent in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of invent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of invent in a Sentence

1. Ahmed Mohamed:

   My hobby is to invent stuff.

2. Brady Brim-DeForest:

   If you don't have answers, invent them.

3. Alan Kay:

   The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

4. Kahlil Gibran:

   Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent.

5. Voltaire:

   If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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