Crossword clues for inventing
inventing
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
vb. (present participle of invent English)
Usage examples of "inventing".
I took all of the materials and hid them out in my barn, which I've been using as sort of an inventing studio.
Without even realizing it, she was reaching into her pocket for a ribbon, to tie her hair up and keep it out of her eyes, as if she were already inventing something instead of just talking about it.
I have sort of a secret library there, as well as a secret inventing studio.
As Violet took her first bite of beans, she felt the gears and levers of her inventing brain spring into action.
Well, let's take Sunny to the tree and then it's off to the barn, where the library and inventing studio are.
Violet smiled because Hector's inventing studio was very well-equipped, with plenty of pliers and glue and wire and everything her inventing brain needed, and because Hector's self-sustaining hot air mobile home was an enormous, fascinating mechanism — just the sort of challenging invention she loved to work on.
Violet was in her element at the inventing studio, and Klaus was in his element at the library, and Sunny was in hers just from being low to the ground and near something she could bite.
It continued with the sounds of awakening crows, which Klaus heard from the library in the barn, and followed with the sight of the birds making their familiar circle in the sky, which Violet saw just as she was leaving the inventing studio.
But once her hair was out of her eyes, her inventing brain began to work at full force, and Violet took a good look around the cell for ideas.
Thus, though I knew for years that Frodo would run into a tree-adventure somewhere far down the Great River, I have no recollection of inventing Ents.
I had the habit while my children were still young of inventing and telling orally, sometimes of writing down, 'children's stories' for their private amusement — according to the notions I then had, and many still have, of what these should be like in style and attitude.
I do not know what the legal position is, I suppose that since one cannot claim property in inventing proper names, that there is no legal obstacle to this young ass publishing his sequel, if he could find any publisher, either respectable or disreputable, who would accept such tripe.
So that I think the passage would be more intelligible if it ran more or less so: 'The imaginary histories grew out of Tolkien's predilection for inventing languages.
I daresay something had been going on in the 'unconscious' for some time, and that accounts for my feeling throughout, especially when stuck, that I was not inventing but reporting (imperfectly) and had at times to wait till 'what really happened' came through.
Klaus, Poe mentioned something about your being interested in inventing things, is that right?