Object

• adventure: Together, they provide all the characters and props children need to invent endless adventures.

• calculus: Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, and their dispute about who first invented the calculus.

• genre: They invented a new genre called The Beta band.

• barometer: Beside this I invented a barometer and a lot of novel scientific apparatus.

• excuse: Again he paused, and I could see that he was trying to invent an excuse.

• spelling: Many secondary-school teachers would surely agree with him that the emphasis on invented spelling has gone too far in primary schools.

Modifying Another Word

• practically: Practically inventing the independent record scene with their seminal self-financed EP Spiral Scratch, Buzzcocks instantly forged a unique relationship with their public.

• newly: In these films newly invented rays stop the engines of planes in flight.

• independently: The gamble is if someone will independently invent the same thing.

• ever: I gave up the best pension scheme ever invented to brew beer.

Used with why or when

• which: The Times, p4, brief A ring has been invented which heats up to remind the wearer of impending anniversaries.

• that: Be carefully not to discus any proprietary network information or security invents that do not directly involve your point of contact.

Infinitive complement

• describe: The acronym DRM was invented to describe technical systems for controlling access to and preventing copying of copyrightable files.

Preposition: in

• 1960s: TFD ( Thin Film Diode ) is an emitting display technology invented in the 1960s.

• century: They are thought to have been invented in the 19th century for members of the East India Company.

Preposition: by

• mathematician: The soma cube puzzle was invented by mathematician Piet Hein.

• scientist: In 1859 the lead-acid cell was invented by the French scientist, Raimond Louis Gaston Planté .

• engineer: Please note that cell division, far from being invented by the genetic engineer, invented the genetic engineer himself.