Associations to the word «Invent»

Wiktionary

INVENT, verb. To design a new process or mechanism.
INVENT, verb. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
INVENT, verb. (obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.

Dictionary definition

INVENT, verb. Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light".
INVENT, verb. Make up something artificial or untrue.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin