invention
发明,发明创造,发明的,发明的东西
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Definitions
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- : the act of inventing.
- : U.S. Patent Law. a new, useful process, machine, improvement, etc., that did not exist previously and that is recognized as the product of some unique intuition or genius, as distinguished from ordinary mechanical skill or craftsmanship.
- : anything invented or devised.
- : the power or faculty of inventing, devising, or originating.
- : an act or instance of creating or producing by exercise of the imagination, especially in art, music, etc.
- : something fabricated, as a false statement.
- : Sociology. the creation of a new culture trait, pattern, etc.
- : Music. a short piece, contrapuntal in nature, generally based on one subject.
- : Rhetoric. one of the five steps in speech preparation, the process of choosing ideas appropriate to the subject, audience, and occasion.
- : Archaic. the act of finding.
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Examples
Yes, keyword or contextual-based advertising is an old tactic, I am not talking about the invention of the wheel.
From the earliest days of the crisis, the Institute’s alumni, labs, and companies have been reworking their research and inventions to meet these pressing challenges.
Many useful inventions, he notes, combine existing technologies in such new ways.
Yet their work includes approaches common to the process of invention.
So, for some people, invention is a way to reduce friction in their lives.
No, the tools used are just old fashioned, and the images produced are drawings, hardly a new invention.
The basic premise that Christians should expect to suffer and be persecuted is not an invention of Rev. Sproul.
The maxim proved true: Necessity is the mother of invention.
The invention of farming was the initial cause of wars that created peace.
The titles of two competing 16th-century world maps nicely capture the tension between reflection and invention.
One of the simplest of these childish tricks is the invention of an excuse for not instantly obeying a command, as "Come here!"
Wordsworth has illustrated how an unwise and importunate demand for a reason from a child may drive him into invention.