| 单词 | patent |
| 释义 | patent —patentable, adj. —patentability, n. —patentably, adv. —patently, adv. /pat"nt/ or, for 10, 12-15, /payt"-/; esp. Brit. /payt"nt/, n. 1. the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years. 2. an invention or process protected by this right. 3. an official document conferring such a right; letters patent. 4. the instrument by which the government of the United States conveys the legal fee-simple title to public land. 5. patent leather. adj. patent for 10, 12-15. 6. protected by a patent; patented: a patent cooling device. 7. pertaining to, concerned with, or dealing with patents, esp. on inventions: a patent attorney; patent law. 8. conferred by a patent, as a right or privilege. 9. holding a patent, as a person. 10. readily open to notice or observation; evident; obvious: a patent breach of good manners. 11. made of patent leather: patent shoes. 12. lying open; not enclosed or shut in: a patent field. 13. Chiefly Bot. expanded or spreading. 14. open, as a doorway or a passage. 15. Phonet. open, in various degrees, to the passage of the breath stream. v.t. 16. to take out a patent on; obtain the exclusive rights to (an invention, process, etc.) by a patent. 17. to originate and establish as one's own. 18. Metall. to heat and quench (wire) so as to prepare for cold-drawing. 19. to grant (public land) by a patent. [1250-1300; (adj.) ME < L patent- (s. of patens) open, orig. prp. of patere to stand wide open; (n.) ME, short for letters patent, trans. of ML litterae patentes open letters] Syn. 10. clear, palpable, conspicuous, unconcealed. See apparent. Ant. 10. dim, obscure, hidden. |
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