Definition of invent

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Invent (v. t.) To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

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Inventibleness :: Inventibleness (n.) Quality of being inventible.
Thoth :: Thoth (n.) The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb..
Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]..
Shrapnel :: Shrapnel (a.) Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.
Bramah Press :: Bramah press () A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic..
Motive :: Motive (n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one..
Fabulist :: Fabulist (n.) One who invents or writes fables.
Fiction :: Fiction (n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind..
Invent :: Invent (v. t.) To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
Quern :: Quern (n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills..
Morse Alphabet :: Morse alphabet () A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .- (A), - . . . (B), -.. (D), . (E), .. (O), . . . (R), -- (T), etc., or by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals between them..
Daguerreian :: Daguerreian (a.) Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype..
Inventorial :: Inventorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an inventory.
Weldon''s Process :: Weldon's process () A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor..
Celsius :: Celsius (n.) The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale..
Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false..
Invention :: Invention (n.) The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts..
Jacquard :: "Jacquard (a.) Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834..
Deviceful :: Deviceful (a.) Full of devices; inventive.
Emblematist :: Emblematist (n.) A writer or inventor of emblems.
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