invention 音标拼音: [ɪnv'ɛnʃən]
n . 发明,创作能力,虚构的故事
发明,创作能力,虚构的故事
invention n 1 :
the creation of something in the mind [
synonym : {
invention },
{
innovation }, {
excogitation }, {
conception }, {
design }]
2 :
a creation (
a new device or process )
resulting from study and experimentation [
synonym : {
invention }, {
innovation }]
3 :
the act of inventing 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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178 Moby Thesaurus words for "
invention ":
Nachtmusik ,
absolute music ,
adaptation ,
air varie ,
aleatory ,
aleatory music ,
apparition ,
arrangement ,
artifact ,
authorship ,
beginning ,
brainchild ,
breakthrough ,
bringing to light ,
bubble ,
canard ,
casual discovery ,
catching ,
chamber music ,
chamber orchestra ,
chance discovery ,
child ,
chimera ,
coinage ,
composition ,
conception ,
concoction ,
contraption ,
contrivance ,
contriving ,
creation ,
creative effort ,
creativeness ,
creativity ,
creature ,
crowning achievement ,
delirium ,
descant ,
detection ,
determination ,
determining ,
development ,
device ,
devising ,
disclosure ,
discovery ,
distillation ,
distinguishment ,
effect ,
eidolon ,
electronic music ,
end product ,
espial ,
essence ,
etude ,
excavation ,
exercise ,
exhumation ,
exposure ,
extract ,
extravaganza ,
fable ,
fabrication ,
fake ,
falsehood ,
falsification ,
fancy ,
fantasque ,
fantasy ,
fecundity ,
fertile mind ,
fertility ,
fib ,
fiction ,
figment ,
find ,
finding ,
finding out ,
forgery ,
fruit ,
gadget ,
generation ,
gizmo ,
hallucination ,
handiwork ,
harmonization ,
hatching ,
idle fancy ,
illusion ,
imagery ,
imagination ,
imagining ,
improvisation ,
incidental music ,
ingenuity ,
innovation ,
instrumental music ,
insubstantial image ,
introduction ,
inventiveness ,
issue ,
leap ,
lie ,
locating ,
location ,
lucky strike ,
maggot ,
make -
believe ,
making do ,
manufacture ,
masterpiece ,
masterwork ,
mintage ,
myth ,
neologism ,
new mintage ,
new phase ,
nocturne ,
novelty ,
offspring ,
opera ,
opus ,
opuscule ,
orchestration ,
original ,
originality ,
origination ,
outcome ,
outgrowth ,
phantasm ,
phantom ,
piece ,
pregnant imagination ,
prevarication ,
product ,
production ,
productivity ,
program music ,
prolificacy ,
recognition ,
rediscovery ,
result ,
revelation ,
ricercar ,
romance ,
score ,
serendipity ,
sham ,
sick fancy ,
sonata ,
sonatina ,
spotting ,
story ,
strike ,
string orchestra ,
string quartet ,
study ,
tale ,
tall story ,
tall tale ,
teeming imagination ,
theme and variations ,
thick -
coming fancies ,
treasure trove ,
trio ,
trip ,
trouvaille ,
trove ,
uncovering ,
unearthing ,
vapor ,
variation ,
vision ,
whim ,
whimsy ,
wildest dreams ,
work ,
yarn 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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