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What does invent mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word invent? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To design a new process or mechanism.
  2. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
  3. (obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.
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If you invent a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door, so the saying goes.
They invent a new form of copyright protection which is then broken by hackers.
What Holford has done is invent a new system called Glycaemic Load or GL, which measures quantity of sugar as well as quality.
If the Lollards had not existed, it would have been necessary to invent them.
He felt he had to invent a cover story to go around this, to make it believable.
If we don't invent a language, if we don't find our body's language, its gestures will be too few to accompany our story.

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