invent
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈvɛnt/
invent (invents, present participle inventing; past and past participle invented)
- To design a new process or mechanism.
- After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
- To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
- I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.
- We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.
- Synonyms: make up
- (obsolete) To come upon; to find; to discover.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:
- Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:
- French: inventer
- German: erfinden
- Italian: inventare
- Portuguese: inventar
- Russian: изобрета́ть
- Spanish: inventar
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