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noun, the act or process of inventing
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invention
- 1) noun, the act or process of inventing
- 2) noun, something that is invented
- 3) noun, patent law the discovery or production of some new or improved process or machine that is both useful and is not obvious to persons skilled in the particular field
- 4) noun, creative power or ability; inventive skill
- 5) noun, a fabrication; lie
- 6) noun, (in traditional rhetoric) one of the five steps in preparing a speech or discourse: the process of finding suitable topics on which to talk or write
- 7) noun, music a short piece consisting of two or three parts usually in imitative counterpoint
- 8) noun, sociol the creation of a new cultural pattern or trait
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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inspiration, innovation, creative, instrument, yarn, imagination, ingenious, creation, machine, device, design, development, discovery, gadget, brainchild (informal), contraption, contrivance, production, foundation, construction, constitution, introduction, establishment, pioneer, formation, conception, mastermind, formulation, inception, originate, fiction, story, fantasy, lie, fabricate, concoction, falsehood, fib (informal), untruth, urban myth, prevaricate, vision, initiative, enterprise, genius, brilliance, ingenuity, originality, inventive, resourceful, imaginative
Love it!
Well done Nikki, thats fantastic
Well done Nikki, love it!
This is one of my favourite definitions! Very funny!!!!
great definition which seems to have generated you a lot of publicity