invention

1. n. 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. Source: opted

2. n. 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. Source: opted

3. n. Thought; idea. Source: opted

4. n. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Source: opted

5. n. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. Source: opted

6. n. 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. Source: opted

7. n. the creation of something in the mind Source: wordnet

8. n. a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation Source: wordnet

9. n. the act of inventing Source: wordnet

10. 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. As the search of it [truth] is the duty, so the invention will be the happiness of man. Tatham. 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. We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished. Evelyn. 3. Thought; idea. Shak. 4. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Filling their hearers With strange invention. Shak. 5. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a maker. Dryden. 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. Invention of the cross (Eccl.), a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St. Helena. Source: webster

11. The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating atheme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, orthe method of presenting its parts. Invention of the cross (Eccl.), afestival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior'scross by St. Helena. Source: adambom

12. n:100 n. the creation of something in the mind n. a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation n. the act of inventing Source: ecdict

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