invent
in.vent \in-'vent\ \-'vent-*r\ vt [ME inventen, fr. L inventus, pp. of
invenire to come upon, f]ind, fr. in- + venire to come - more at COME
archaic 1: FIND, DISCOVER 2: to think up or imagine : FABRICATE 3: to
create or produce for the first time : DEVISE ew into existence. INVENT
implies fabricating something useful usu. as a result of ingenious thinking
or experiment; CREATE implies an evoking of life out of nothing or
producing a thing for the sake of its existence rather than its function or
use; DISCOVER presupposes preexistence of something and implies a finding
rather than a making - in.ven.tor n SYN syn INVENT, CREATE, DISCOVER mean
to bring something n