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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Dictionary Results for invention: |
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
invention
n 1: the creation of something in the mind [syn: invention,
innovation, excogitation, conception, design]
2: a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and
experimentation [syn: invention, innovation]
3: the act of inventing
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Invention \In*ven"tion\, n. [L. inventio: cf. F. invention. See
Invent.]
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1. The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or
construction of that which has not before existed; as, the
invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of
printing.
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As the search of it [truth] is the duty, so the
invention will be the happiness of man. --Tatham.
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2. That which is invented; an original contrivance or
construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention
of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention; she
patented five inventions.
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We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention
to let one fall if not premonished. --Evelyn.
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3. Thought; idea. --Shak.
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4. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a
falsehood.
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Filling their hearers
With strange invention. --Shak.
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5. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or
ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of
invention.
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They lay no less than a want of invention to his
charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a
maker. --Dryden.
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6. (Fine Arts, Rhet., etc.) The exercise of the imagination
in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in
contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of
presenting its parts.
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Invention of the cross (Eccl.), a festival celebrated May
3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St.
Helena.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
INVENTION. A contrivance; a discovery. It is in this sense this word is used
in the patent laws of the United States. 17 Pet. 228; S. C. 1 How. U. S.
202. It signifies not something which has been found ready made, but
something which, in consequence of art or accident, has been formed; for the
invention must relate to some new or useful art, machine, manufacture, or
composition of matter, not before known or used by others. Act of July 4,
1836, 4 Sharsw. continuation of Story's L. U.S. 2506; 1 Mason, R. 302; 4
Wash. C. C. R. 9. Vide Patent. By invention, the civilians understand the
finding of some things which had not been lost; they must either have
abandoned, or they must have never belonged to any one, as a pearl found on
the sea shore. Lec. Elem Sec. 350.
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