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invention (ɪnˈvɛnʃən
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Definitions
noun
- the act or process of inventing
- something that is invented
- (patent law) the discovery or production of some new or improved process or machine that is both useful and is not obvious to persons skilled in the particular field
- creative power or ability; inventive skill
- (euphemistic) a fabrication; lie
- (in traditional rhetoric) one of the five steps in preparing a speech or discourse: the process of finding suitable topics on which to talk or write
- (music) a short piece consisting of two or three parts usually in imitative counterpoint
- (sociology) the creation of a new cultural pattern or trait
Derived Forms
inˈventional adjectiveinˈventionless adjective
Synonyms
View thesaurus entry = creation, machine, device, design, development, instrument, discovery, innovation, gadget, brainchild, contraption, contrivance, waldo
= development, design, production, setting up, foundation, construction, constitution, creation, discovery, introduction, establishment, pioneering, formation, innovation, conception, masterminding, formulation, inception, contrivance, origination, institution
= fiction, story, fantasy, lie, yarn, fabrication, concoction, falsehood, fib, untruth, urban myth, prevarication, tall story, urban legend, figment or product of (someone's) imagination
= creativity, vision, imagination, initiative, enterprise, inspiration, genius, brilliance, ingenuity, originality, inventiveness, resourcefulness, creativeness, ingeniousness, imaginativeness
Translations for 'invention'
- British English: invention An invention is a machine or system that has been invented by someone.Paper was a Chinese invention.ɪnˈvɛnʃən NOUN
- Arabic: إِخْتِرَاعٌ
- Brazilian Portuguese: invenção
- Chinese: 发明
- Croatian: izum
- Czech: vynález
- Danish: opfindelse
- Dutch: uitvinding
- European Spanish: invención
- Finnish: keksintö
- French: invention
- German: Erfindung
- Greek: εφεύρεση
- Italian: invenzione
- Japanese: 発明
- Korean: 발명
- Norwegian: oppfinnelse
- Polish: wynalazek
- Portuguese: invenção
- Romanian: invenție invenții
- Russian: изобретение
- Spanish: invención
- Swedish: uppfinning
- Thai: การประดิษฐ์
- Turkish: icat
- Ukrainian: винахід
- Vietnamese: sự phát minh
Example Sentences Including 'invention'
A small but smart blend of ideas, formal invention within real-time conversation, and a good love story.Globe and Mail (2005)
But some years later, the invention of plastic rollers and curlers threatened to put him out of business.Globe and Mail (2003)
But the most universal human method of bridging the Void has always been the invention of religion.The Broken God
In spite of what the current managers may believe, hyperbole is not a recent invention where this fixture is concerned.Glasgow Herald (2001)
It is about the invention of a cure for flaccid virile organs.New Scientist (1998)
Somebody pointed out that, strictly speaking, electricity was a discovery, not an invention.A Rodent of Doubt
The invention of a practical, petrol-driven motor-car had more or less kept pace with Marconi's own development of wireless telegraphy.SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution (2003)
They were disciplined and worked hard but there was a terrible lack of invention.Liverpool Daily Post and Echo (2003)
`I want to invent the present," she said to me, `the past is an outworn invention.Dreams of Innocence
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