Definition of invent

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

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Inventive :: Inventive (a.) Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius..
Designment :: Designment (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.
Mint :: Mint (v. t.) To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
Coiner :: Coiner (n.) An inventor or maker, as of words..
Interference :: Interference (n.) The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention..
Calotype :: Calotype (n.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot..
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..
Patent :: Patent (v. t.) To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands..
Inventer :: Inventer (n.) One who invents.
Brunonian :: Brunonian (a.) Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation..
Italic :: Italic (a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500..
Inventful :: Inventful (a.) Full of invention.
Coinage :: Coinage (v. t.) The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.
Device :: Device (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice..
Inventor :: Inventor (n.) One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices..
Patent :: Patent (a.) A writing securing to an invention.
Inventoried :: Inventoried (imp. & p. p.) of Inventor.
Fertile :: Fertile (a.) Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination..
Bramah Press :: Bramah press () A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic..
Leyden Phial :: Leyden phial () A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland..
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