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UK
/ɪnvˈɛnt/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈvɛnt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈvɛnt/ ]
VERB
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come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
excogitate a way to measure the speed of light - concoct something artificial or untrue
How To Use invent In A Sentence
- I'm afraid he is guilty of a good deal of invention.
- Sadly, none of a myriad of ingenious contraptions, despite inventors' claims, puts forth more energy than it absorbs.
- 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 admire the inventiveness, and while not everything is a raging success, there's a lot to like.
- There wasn't a lot of information there; I had to expand on it, invent the colour scheme.
- 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
- In the early 1800s, the French weaver Joseph Jacquard invented a loom in which a series of punched cards controlled the patterns of cloth and carpet produced.
- As executrix you are required to value the home on the inventory you file with the court, so you could simply divide that number by four and base your offer on that value.
- A shame since it includes the weapons, sabotage devices and other inventions which undoubtedly frustrated the German forces.
- 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.