| Invent |
v. t. |
To come or light upon; to meet; to find. |
| Invent |
v. t. |
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. |
| Invent |
v. t. |
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. |
| Invented |
imp. & p. p. |
of Invent |
| Inventer |
n. |
One who invents. |
| Inventful |
a. |
Full of invention. |
| Inventible |
a. |
Capable of being invented. |
| Inventibleness |
n. |
Quality of being inventible. |
| Inventing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Invent |
| Invention |
n. |
The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing. |
| Invention |
n. |
That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention. |
| Invention |
n. |
Thought; idea. |
| Invention |
n. |
A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. |
| Invention |
n. |
The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of 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. |
| Inventious |
a. |
Inventive. |
| Inventive |
a. |
Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. |
| Inventor |
n. |
One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices. |
| Inventorial |
a. |
Of or pertaining to an inventory. |
| Inventoried |
imp. & p. p. |
of Inventory |
| Inventories |
pl. |
of Inventory |
| Inventory |
n. |
An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business. |
| Inventory |
v. t. |
To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock. |
| Inventorying |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Inventory |
| Inventress |
n. |
A woman who invents. |
