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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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