Synonyms of the word invent


INVENTCONCOCT - CONTRIVE - DEVISE - EXCOGITATE - FABRICATE - FORGE - FORMULATE - HATCH - MANUFACTURE

invent

  • v. To design a new process or mechanism.
  • v. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
  • v. (obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.

concoct

  • v. To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.
  • v. To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.

contrive

  • v. To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to plan; to scheme; to plot.
  • v. To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
  • v. To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.

devise

  • v. (transitive) To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
  • v. (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
  • v. (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
  • n. The act of leaving real property in a will.
  • n. Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
  • n. The real property left in such a will.
  • n. Design, devising.

excogitate

  • v. To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
  • v. To come to a conclusion through reason or careful thought.

fabricate

  • v. (transitive) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.
  • v. (transitive) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.
  • v. (transitive) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.
  • v. (transitive, cooking) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to…

forge

  • n. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
  • n. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
  • n. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
  • v. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
  • v. To form or create with concerted effort.
  • v. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
  • v. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
  • v. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually…
  • v. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

formulate

  • v. (transitive) To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement…

hatch

  • n. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
  • n. A trapdoor.
  • n. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
  • n. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided…
  • n. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine.
  • n. (slang) A gullet.
  • n. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
  • n. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
  • n. (Scotland) A bedstead.
  • n. (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
  • v. (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
  • v. (intransitive) (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
  • v. (intransitive) (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
  • v. (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
  • v. (transitive) To devise.
  • n. The act of hatching.
  • n. Development; disclosure; discovery.
  • n. (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
  • n. (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one…
  • n. (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched…
  • v. (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

manufacture

  • n. The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
  • n. Anything made, formed or produced; product.
  • n. (figuratively) The process of such production; generation, creation.
  • v. To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
  • v. (transitive) To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
  • v. (derogatory) To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.

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