Invent

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  • transitive verb. To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.
  • transitive verb. To make up; fabricate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To come upon; light upon; meet with; find.
  • To find out by original study or contrivance; create by a new use or combination of means; devise the form, construction, composition, method, or principle of.
  • In general, to produce by contrivance; fabricate; concoet; devise: as, to invent the plot of a story; to invent an excuse or a falsehood.
  • Synonyms 2 and 3. Discover, Invent. See discover and invention.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To design a new process or mechanism.
  • verb. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
  • verb. To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
  • verb. make up something artificial or untrue
  • Word Usage
    "That is, critics who use the term invent the boundaries that are supposedly being "transgressed.""