Found 3 items, similar to invented.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: invented
jadian
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: invented
invented
adj : formed or conceived by the imagination;
“a fabricated excuse
for his absence”;
“a fancied wrong”;
“a fictional
character”;
“used fictitious names”;
“a made-up story”
[syn:
fabricated,
fancied,
fictional,
fictitious,
made-up]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Invented
Invent
\In*vent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Invented; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Inventing.] [L. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come
upon, to find, invent; pref. in- in + venire to come, akin to
E. come: cf. F. inventer. See
Come.]
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1. To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.]
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And vowed never to return again,
Till him alive or dead she did invent. --Spenser.
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2. 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.
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Thus first Necessity invented stools. --Cowper.
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3. 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.
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Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. --Milton.
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He had invented some circumstances, and put the
worst possible construction on others. --Sir W.
Scott.
Syn: To discover; contrive; devise; frame; design; fabricate;
concoct; elaborate. See
Discover.
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