Definition of invent

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Invent (v. t.) 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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Interference :: Interference (n.) The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention..
Bramah Press :: Bramah press () A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic..
Italic :: Italic (a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500..
Weldon''s Process :: Weldon's process () A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor..
Designment :: Designment (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.
Inventive :: Inventive (a.) Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius..
Model :: Model (n.) Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine..
Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument..
Gyroscope :: Gyroscope (n.) A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion..
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer..
Gramme Machine :: Gramme machine () A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme..
Inventory :: Inventory (n.) An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business..
Deviceful :: Deviceful (a.) Full of devices; inventive.
Mithridate :: Mithridate (n.) An antidote against poison, or a composition in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poison; an alexipharmic; -- so called from King Mithridates, its reputed inventor..
Basset :: Basset (n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice..
Mackintosh :: Mackintosh (n.) A waterproof outer garment; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
Fiction :: Fiction (n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind..
Interfere :: Interfere (v. i.) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention.
Forgetive :: Forgetive (a.) Inventive; productive; capable.
Design :: Design (n.) To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral..
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