Crossword clues for invented
invented
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Invent \In*vent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Invented; p. pr. & vb. n. Inventing.] [L. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come upon, to find, invent; pref. in- in + venire to come, akin to E. come: cf. F. inventer. See Come.]
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To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.]
And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent.
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To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.
Thus first Necessity invented stools.
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To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.
Whate'er his cruel malice could invent.
--Milton.He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst possible construction on others.
--Sir W. Scott.Syn: To discover; contrive; devise; frame; design; fabricate; concoct; elaborate. See Discover.
Wiktionary
fictional, made up, imaginary. v
(en-past of: invent)
WordNet
adj. formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story" [syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious, made-up]
Wikipedia
Invented is the seventh studio album by American rock band Jimmy Eat World, released on September 28, 2010 through Interscope Records. Recorded primarily at the band's home-based studio, the album was co-produced by Mark Trombino, who had previously worked on the band's earlier material; Static Prevails (1996), Clarity (1999) and Bleed American (2001). The album was preceded by the single " My Best Theory", released on digital download on August 10, 2010.
Lyrically influenced by the photographic works of Cindy Sherman and Hannah Starkey, vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Jim Adkins states that each song is its own "closed narrative," remarking that, "the album title, Invented, refers to a song which I feel sums up the mood here, but could also be taken more literally as this album is the deepest into character writing we have tried so far."
Usage examples of "invented".
She thinks that textiles were invented very early on: she has, she says, identified impressions of netting on fragments of clay from Upper Palaeolithic sites in Moravia and Russia that suggest the possibility of net hunting.
Further, there is a general agreement among palaeobiologists that domestication was invented only once and then spread to western Europe and India.
It was sedentism which allowed the interval between births to be reduced, boosting population, as a result of which villages grew, social organisation became more complicated and, perhaps, a new concept of religion was invented, which in some ways reflected the village situation, where leaders and subordinates would have emerged.
The Jomon Japanese were extremely creative, with very sophisticated hand-axes, and they also invented lacquer.
He found that, once invented, the technology of pottery quickly improved.
He therefore drew the conclusion that the interment had taken place before writing had been invented to record the event.
In fact, more important, more fundamental even than writing in the history of progress, is that happy coincidence that the Sumerians also invented the chariot.
Just as it was in the busy trading cities of Sumer that writing began, because it was needed, so the alphabet was invented, not in Mesopotamia but further west where the Semitic languages lent themselves to such a change.
This system appears to have been deliberately invented, with no real precursors.
After the first solid wheels were invented, the spoked wheel was conceived.
He selected a war theme also but he chose a battle of his own time: in effect, he invented contemporary history.
Covenant with God was invented, meaning that the Israelites needed a special God for this to happen, an entity very different from any other deity in the region.
Again, had people invented these encounters then, given the singular nature of the phenomenon, the meetings would surely have been embellished to make them more significant.
Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome, was supposed to have invented the original calendar, which began in March and had ten months.
During this war, we are told by Plutarch, in his life of the Roman general Marcellus, Archimedes invented a number of ingenious weapons to use against the enemy, including catapults and burning-mirrors to set fire to Roman ships.