invention
111
3.2
- noun
- /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
:
invención
- Many consider the light bulb to be one of the greatest inventions in history.
- mother of invention
- creative invention
- artistic invention
Was Ukraine an invention by Lenin, as Putin claims?
- Was Ukraine an invention by Lenin, as Putin claims?
- This process of sort of fictitious ethnic invention is called ethnogenesis.
- History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.
- Even the language we speak is an invention.
- Can we just just like pause on the brilliance of that invention creation, the art?
- What is the most important invention of man?
- So there's something which you might call invention, you guys.
- But the idea is, is, is that ideas and inventions are networks of things.
- You know, entrepreneurship, that's the the greatest invention of man is capitalism just is.
- And then he tells us, too, that invention is doubtless the most important one.
- So it's a kind of northern masculine invention.
- The late Schnee wins The invention of autonomy.
Examples
-
Trade was the unlikely impetus for the invention of the world's first writing system.
-
But necessity is indeed the mother of invention.
-
So would that be the the greatest invention ever made on Earth?
-
Let me show you an invention of mine.
-
This is an invention of mine.
-
What you hold in your hand is the proof of their power-- their power of invention, their power of technology.
-
Consider young people whose passion for something leads them toward the invention or creation of something unique.
Academic text (2013) -
History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.
-
Our fascination with motor cars has been a continuing trend since their invention over 100 years ago.
Academic text (2013) -
He believes AI is medicine's biggest moment since the invention of antibiotics.
Synonyms
349
1.8
The act of making something new
320
1.3
The act of producing something
310
3.9
Bringing in new ideas or ways of doing things
59
4.6
An idea or plan someone forms in their mind
6
7.9
To think of new plans or solutions for a problem
5
6.3
The time when something begins or is made
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
A document that gives an inventor the only right to make, use, or sell an invention for a set time
How Original
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Invention comes from the old Latin word invenire, made of in- 'into' and venire 'come', and it meant 'to come upon' or 'find'. So an invention is something you 'find' by using your imagination, a new idea or creation.