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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pat•ent /ˈpætənt/USA pronunciation n. - Law the right granted to an inventor to be the only manufacturer or seller of an invention for a specified number of years:[countable]She applied to the government for a patent.
- Clothingpatent leather.
adj. - Law protected by a patent;
dealing with patents:[before a noun]patent law. - easily open to notice;
plain to see:a patent absurdity. - Clothingmade of patent leather:patent shoes.
v. [~ + object] - Lawto obtain a patent on (an invention):to patent a new invention; to patent her software.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pat•ent (pat′nt or, for 10, 12–15, pāt′-; esp. Brit. pāt′nt),USA pronunciation n. - Lawmakingthe exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- Lawmakingan invention or process protected by this right.
- Lawmakingan official document conferring such a right;
letters patent. - the instrument by which the government of the United States conveys the legal fee-simple title to public land.
- Clothingpatent leather.
adj. pa•tent for 10, 12–15. - protected by a patent;
patented:a patent cooling device. - pertaining to, concerned with, or dealing with patents, esp. on inventions:a patent attorney; patent law.
- conferred by a patent, as a right or privilege.
- holding a patent, as a person.
- readily open to notice or observation;
evident;
obvious:a patent breach of good manners. - Clothingmade of patent leather:patent shoes.
- lying open;
not enclosed or shut in:a patent field. - Botany[Chiefly Bot.]expanded or spreading.
- open, as a doorway or a passage.
- Phoneticsopen, in various degrees, to the passage of the breath stream.
v.t. - to take out a patent on;
obtain the exclusive rights to (an invention, process, etc.) by a patent. - to originate and establish as one's own.
- Metallurgyto heat and quench (wire) so as to prepare for cold-drawing.
- to grant (public land) by a patent.
- Latin patent- (stem of patēns) open, origin, originally present participle of patēre to stand wide open; (noun, nominal) Middle English, short for letters patent, translation of Medieval Latin litterae patentēs open letters
- (adjective, adjectival) Middle English 1250–1300
- 10.See corresponding entry in Unabridged clear, palpable, conspicuous, unconcealed. See apparent.
- 10.See corresponding entry in Unabridged dim, obscure, hidden.
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