Definition
Meaning of 'invent'
Meaning of 'invent' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Invent 
[ v. t.]
- To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [ v. t.]- To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.
- 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.
Meaning of 'invent' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. invent [ v]
[ v]Meaning (1):
- come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
- come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
Example in sentence:
- excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
Nearby Topics:
See 'invent' also in:
Recent Article
Categories
- Business Studies
- Banking & Finance
- Management & Organization Studies
- HRM & Labor Studies
- Management Information System
- Accounting & Auditing
- Marketing & Public Relations
- Entrepreneurship & Small Business
- Psychology & Behavioral Science
- Computer Programming
- Automotive Engineering
- Computer Networking
- Medical & Health Science
- Microbiology