invent
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
Definition of invent
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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To design a new process or mechanism.
“After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.”
“Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war”
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verb
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To design a new process or mechanism.
“After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.”
“Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war”
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To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
“I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.”
“We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.”
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(obsolete)To come upon; to find; to discover.
“Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English inventen, borrowed from Old French inventer, from Latin inventus, perfect passive participle of inveniō (“come upon, meet with, find, discover”), from in (“in, on”) + veniō (“come”); see venture. Compare advent, covent, event, prevent, etc. Displaced native Old English āþenċan (literally “to think out”).
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