invention
in·ven·tion (in ven′s̸hən)
noun
- an inventing or being invented
- the power of inventing; ingenuity or creativity
- something invented; specif.,
- something thought up or mentally fabricated; esp., a falsehood
- something originated by experiment, etc.; new device or contrivance
- Music a short composition, usually for a keyboard instrument, developing a single short motif in counterpoint; esp., any of a group of these by J. S. Bach
Etymology: ME inuencioun < OFr invencion < L inventio
invention
n.
Ingenuity
inventiveness, imagination, creativity; see originality.An original device
contrivance, contraption, design; see contrivance 2, device 1, discovery 2.
Preposition: of
- printing: The invention of printing also led to the gradual standardization of mathematical notation.
- pendulum: Chapter 3 Counting the minutes: the invention of the pendulum and balance spring.
- photography: The invention of photography finally ensured that even people of modest means could have their portraits made.
- calculus: When Newton accuses German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz of plagiarizing his invention of calculus, he begins a bitter conflict over priority.
- microscope: Describes the invention of the compound microscope and suggests immersion lens.
- radar: They never saw active service due to the invention of radar in 1935 and have remained untouched and unused for seventy-five years.
Converse of object
- commercialize: Our University Challenge Fund is designed to provide seedcorn finance to commercialize inventions.
- disclose: Table 1. Distribution policy prior to 1 August 2005 for revenue for inventions disclosed to Innovations.
- patent: They have patented two inventions related to underwater photography.
- exploit: A patent thus allows its owner to stop others from exploiting the invention.
- protect: A patent is a monopoly right which protects an invention for up to 20 years.
- discover: Vodafone Big Idea Vodafone is aiming to discover the next great British invention or business idea.
Adjective modifier
- biotechnological: Thus, the question arises what needs to be shown to establish that a biotechnological invention is capable of industrial application.
- computer-implemented: Labor MEPs reject flawed software law Labor Euro MPs will vote today to reject the EU law on computer-implemented inventions.
- patentable: UCL reserves the right to impose confidentiality obligations on students who create, or work on, patentable inventions.
- patented: I have a patented invention that I would like to get some economic backing or would like to move forward with.
- melodic: His melodic invention rarely flags, so that all the parts have true melodic independence and shape.
- new-fangled: New-Fangled Inventions The Crystal Palace was a wonderful feat of engineering COL.Comet.Data.EntityClasses.WitnessEntity Harriet, Countess Granville Question 1: Who are you?
Modifies a noun
- promoter: Invention promoters are firms who offer assistance to inventors.
Noun used with modifier
- century: For Ross and Roger, this is not just a twenty-first century invention.
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only theapplication of themthat is human. Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable asthose by whichthe universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.
Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.
The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention. He generally becomes asstupidand ignorant asit ispossible for a human creature to become.
'Faith' is a fine invention When Gentlemen can seeö But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.
The Muses'garden, with pedantic weeds O'erspread, was purged by thee; the lazy seeds Of servile imitation thrown away, And fresh invention planted.
A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.
The greatest invention since the novel.
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, 'Fool,'said my muse to me; 'look in thy heart, and write.'
Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!
One oughttoacknowledgethesignificance for mankind of the simultaneous invention of gunpowder and printer's ink.
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.
Shakespeare's name, you may depend upon it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.He had no invention as to stories, none whatever. He took all his plots from oldnovels, and threw their stories into dramatic shape That he threw over whatever he did write some flashes of genius, nobody can deny; but this was all.
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there isno place for industry; becausethe fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
I sought out quaint words, and trim invention; My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell, Curling with metaphors a plain intention, Decking the sense, as if it were to sell.
Without invention nothing is well-spaced.
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