Word Finder - invented

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To design a new process or mechanism.

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After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.

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To create something fictional for a particular purpose.

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I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.

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• make up

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To come upon; to find; to discover.

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Fictional, made up, imaginary.

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The invented alibi didn't stand up long.

Kelway invented an electrical log in 1876.

Who invented Him, if He did not exist?

Perhaps you think you have invented a novelty?

We also can't hammer nails with our hands, so we invented hammers.

In 1902 Marconi invented two forms of magnetic detector, one of which he developed into an electric wave detector of extraordinary delicacy and utility.

He found it laughable that the living invented so many myths to create a false sense of security regarding the dark predators.

But I do not understand how he ever thought a blind and deaf child of eleven could have invented them.

The screw or rotatory log of Edward Massey, invented in 1802, came into general use in 1836 and continued until 1861.

He invented the wheel barometer, discussed the application of barometrical indications to meteorological forecasting, suggested a system of optical telegraphy, anticipated E.F.F.

I gave up the best pension scheme ever invented to brew beer.

You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding.

But the Liverpool & Manchester railway, opened in 1830, first impressed the national mind with the fact that a revolution in the methods of travelling had really taken place; and further, it was for it that the first high-speed locomotive of the modern type was invented and constructed.

It is hilarious that an invented prohibition of splitting infinitives should have such an impact even today without people even knowing why.

The only signs which I think she may have invented were her signs for SMALL and LARGE.

According to the legend, Athena, who had invented the flute, threw it away in disgust, because it distorted the features.

The use of mercuric fulminate as a detonator dates from about 1814, when the explosive cap was invented.

In 1836 Cooke, to whom the idea appears to have been suggested by Schilling's method, invented a telegraph in which an alphabet was worked out by the single and combined movement of three needles.

This form of electric wave detector proved itself to be far more certain in operation and sensitive than anything previously invented.

Hughes invented the microphone, but did not apply for letters patent.

Thus diachylon plaster was invented by Menecrates in A.D.

An electuary of opium, known as Mithradatum, was invented by Mithradates VI., king of Pontus, who lived in constant fear of being poisoned, and tested the effects of poisons on criminals, and is said to have taken poisons and their antidotes every day in the year.

The Master Car Builders' Association, a great body of mechanical officers organized especially to being about improvement and uniformity in details of construction and operation, expressed its sense of the importance of " self-coupling " so far back as 1874, but no device of the kind that could be considered useful had then been invented.

In principle it had been invented by Sir Marc I.

The influence of Demeter, however, was not limited to corn, but extended to vegetation generally and all the fruits of the earth, with the curious exception of the bean, the use of which was forbidden at Eleusis, and for the protection of which a special patron was invented.

At first an eight years' cycle was adopted, but it was found to be faulty, then the Jewish cycle of 84 years was used, and remained in force at Rome till the year 457, when a more accurate calculation of a cycle of 532 years, invented by Victorius of Acquitaine, took its place.

The Realists held that universals alone have substantial reality, existing ante res; the Nominalists that universals are mere names invented to express the qualities of particular things and existing post res; while the Conceptualists, mediating between the two extremes, held that universals are concepts which exist in our minds and express real similarities in things themselves.

The rotary system of drilling which is in general use in the oilfields of the coastal plain of Texas is a modification of that invented Rotary by Fauvelle in 1845, and used in the early years of the R .

He was a man of high character and benevolent disposition, a fine flute-player, and a generous master to his slaves, for whose children he invented the rattle.

The art of writing also appears to have been independently invented by the Malayan races, since numerous alphabets are in use among the peoples of the archipelago, although for the writing of Malay itself the Arabic character has been adopted for some hundreds of years.

They first invented and named the alembic for the purposes of distillation, analyzed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of alkalis and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into soft and salutary remedies.

At the same time Berzelius obtained the element, in an impure condition, by fusing silica with charcoal and iron in a blast furnace; its preparation in a pure condition he first accomplished in 1823, when he invented the method of heating double potassium fluorides with metallic potassium.

The medieval Arabians invented our system of numeration and developed algebra.

France invented the hypermarket but went through a similar change of heart even earlier, as did The Netherlands.

In Britain the Romans found it so cold that they invented a sort of central heating called a hypocaust.

He introduced Daimler cars to Britain and with Bosch he invented magneto ignition.

In these films newly invented rays stop the engines of planes in flight.

Finally, I invented a new Adjustable Post-hole, which I thought would make my fortune.

Is there one person who invented video games?

Athena was said to have invented the plough, and to have taught men to tame horses and yoke oxen.

In 1833 Pattinson invented his process by means of which practically all the silver is concentrated in 13% of the original lead to be cupelled, while the rest becomes market lead.

Several pieces of apparatus have been invented for comparing the magnetic quality of a sample with that of a standard iron rod by a zero method, such as is employed in the comparison of electrical resistances by the Wheatstone bridge.

He invented magnets that could withstand the effects of percussion and ordinary temperature variations.

He studied ancient theories of music, and is said to have invented the thirteen-syllable verse known subsequently as versi martelliani.

On his farm Smith carried out his experiments in deep and thorough draining, and also invented a reaping machine, the subsoil plough and numerous other valuable appliances.

In the 16th century the latinized form Edina was invented and has been used chiefly by poets, once notably by Burns, whose " Address " begins " Edina!

But conversion, after all, was the chief aim of these devoted missionaries, and when some Venetian priests had invented a Latin alphabet for the Magyar language a great step had been taken towards its accomplishment.

Lavoisier he made an important series of experiments on specific heat (1782-1784), in the course of which the "ice calorimeter" was invented; and they contributed jointly to the Memoirs of the Academy (1781) a paper on the development of electricity by evaporation.

The questions raised by these considerations have attracted much public attention under the newly invented name of " eugenics," but they are of an exceedingly difficult and delicate nature.

At one time the Turkish script was altered, with the result that officers were unable to read their reports or orders; then the Enverie, a highly unpractical head-covering, reminiscent of a child's paper hat, was invented and introduced; in March 1914 he demanded and obtained the hand of Princess Nadjie, the Sultan's niece, made himself general of a division, and began, moreover, to take thought for his financial future.

By the laryngoscope, invented about 1850 by Manuel Garcia the celebrated singingmaster, and perfected by Johann Czermak (1828-1873) and others, the diseases of the larynx also have been brought into the general light which has been shed on all fields of disease; and many of them, previously known more or less empirically, submitted to precise definition and cure.