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[ UK /ɪnvˈɛnt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈvɛnt/ ]
VERB
  1. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
    excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
  2. concoct something artificial or untrue

How To Use invent In A Sentence

  • I admire the inventiveness, and while not everything is a raging success, there's a lot to like.
  • Sadly, none of a myriad of ingenious contraptions, despite inventors' claims, puts forth more energy than it absorbs.
  • There wasn't a lot of information there; I had to expand on it, invent the colour scheme.
  • Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, a product in which the explosion-prone nitroglycerin is curbed by being absorbed in kieselguhr, a porous soil rich in shells of diatoms. Physiology or Medicine for 1998 - Press Release
  • I'm afraid he is guilty of a good deal of invention.
  • Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail. Act V. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  • The invention concerns a cable drum having a non-cylindrical profile of its outer surface and the use of this cable drum in a window regulator system, particularly in a vehicle.
  • I believe it has its own atmosphere because it is built in what you call a caldera, but I may have picked that information up from like a Syfy TV movie about the Coming Global Superstorm, or invented it in my own mind. Television Without Pity
  • Credit, however, must go where it's due and there's one name that springs instantly to mind when considering the rise and rise of the re-invented jandal. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
  • He was one of the first 19th century sailors who tamed the seas through science, inventing systems for transporting cannon over marshy ground, ciphers for code and a system of hydrographical surveys.
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