'Invent' definitions:
Definition of 'invent'
(from WordNet)
verb
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge]
verb
Definition of 'Invent'
From: GCIDE
- Invent \In*vent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Invented; p. pr. & vb. n. Inventing.] [L. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come upon, to find, invent; pref. in- in + venire to come, akin to E. come: cf. F. inventer. See Come.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Thus first Necessity invented stools. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst possible construction on others. --Sir W. Scott.
- Syn: To discover; contrive; devise; frame; design; fabricate; concoct; elaborate. See Discover. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'invent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- beget,
- break ground,
- break the ice,
- breed,
- bring forth,
- bring into being,
- call into being,
- coin,
- conceit,
- conceive,
- conceptualize,
- concoct,
- contrive,
- cook up,
- counterfeit,
- create,
- design,
- determine,
- develop,
- devise,
- discover,
- dream up,
- engender,
- envision,
- evolve,
- experience imaginatively,
- fabricate,
- fake,
- fancy,
- fantasize,
- fictionalize,
- find,
- find out,
- forge,
- formulate,
- frame,
- fudge,
- generate,
- get,
- give being to,
- give rise to,
- hatch,
- hatch up,
- head,
- head up,
- hit,
- hit upon,
- hoke up,
- hunt down,
- ideate,
- imagine,
- improvise,
- inaugurate,
- initiate,
- innovate,
- introduce,
- introduce new blood,
- lead,
- lead off,
- lead the way,
- locate,
- make do with,
- make innovations,
- make up,
- manufacture,
- mature,
- mint,
- mold,
- neologize,
- neoterize,
- originate,
- pioneer,
- plan,
- precede,
- procreate,
- produce,
- rediscover,
- renew,
- renovate,
- revolutionize,
- run down,
- run to earth,
- shape,
- spawn,
- stand first,
- strike,
- strike out,
- suppose,
- take the initiative,
- take the lead,
- take the plunge,
- think out,
- think up,
- trace,
- trace down,
- track down,
- trump up,
- turn out,
- vamp up