单词 | invent |
释义 | in·vent 1. < must invent beds for them — Frederick Way > < this polymer was invented in England and is an outgrowth of earlier research — Leonard Maner & Harry Wechsler > 2. < his fund of knowledge seemed inexhaustible, for what he didn't know he invented — Alvin Redman > < preparing in his mind the harshest response he could invent — W.F.Davis > 3. < he invented and secured a patent … for a rock-boring machine — B.A.Soule > < if the Semitic letters were not derived from Egypt they must have been invented by the Phoenicians — Edward Clodd > < invented an ingenious kind of ball game — Margaret Bean > < has invented plenty of good tunes of his own — Sigmund Spaeth > 4. obsolete < festival days in old time were invented for recreation — John Northbrooke > Synonyms: see contrive |
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