to invent
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3.1
- verb
- /ɪnˈvɛnt/
:
inventar
- In the workshop, students are encouraged to invent their own devices for solving common problems.
- invent something new
- invent a method
- invent solutions
The Internet hadn't been invented then, more or less.
- The Internet hadn't been invented then, more or less.
- In World of Warcraft, you invent a dashboard for yourself.
- Like when when some guy invented the Internet, right?
- And it was right there waiting to be invented for centuries.
- Yes, that's right, Mira had invented the lunch break.
- The chances of inventing something are pretty slim.
- I know that Bologna was invented in Bologna.
- Our turn to invent, to question, to push forward.
- Essentially, a big innovation of that time was inventing video games themselves.
- It's a new medium invented by my friend Louie Anderson.
- On the upside, we did invent the sampling.
- Man's ability to invent and adapt is evolution.
Examples
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Create an environment to provide students and others opportunities to invent, tinker, create, learn, and design.
Academic text (2015) -
Name something you would invent that could change the world.
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Thanks to these modern forms, people invent and control their own image.
Academic text (2008) -
We're going to try and invent and name the battery.
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What use is it to invent a game only to have it outlawed a few years later?
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They hire these ice cream scientists whose job is to invent three new flavors every month.
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You know, I've been meaning to point out that Leap Day was invented to reconcile the calendar every four years.
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His father invented that coil thing that heats up when you vape.
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Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, which allowed people to record and play back sound.
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She plans to invent a new kind of eco-friendly packaging that reduces plastic waste.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To make something new that does not exist yet
∞
2.6
To plan and make something so it looks and works as needed
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2.1
Invent a plan or idea in your mind
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1.8
To create something new like an idea or product
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5.5
Bring in new ideas or ways of doing things
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word invent comes from the Latin invenire, made of in- 'into' and venire 'to come', and at first meant 'to come upon' or 'find' an idea, like discovering something new. So, to invent is to bring a new thing or idea into the world.