invent

«invent» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To make or design something new that did not exist before — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (invent, invents, invented, inventing)

meaning for a pupil

1) To make or design something new that did not exist before. tree →

2) To make up a story or excuse that is not true. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Tradition speaks of the alphabet as something God inspired a scribe to invent, linking the making of letters to the making of the world. In the primary lessons: In science and history, inventors invented things like the light bulb, the telephone and the bicycle; an invention solves a problem. In design lessons, pupils invent their own gadgets. In everyday life, inventing an excuse means making up something untrue. Phrases: invent a machine, invent a game, invent an excuse, invented by.

examples

• Ginsburg asserts that the system of vowel polluting was invented by a Rabbi Mocha in Palestine about a.d. 570, who designed it to assist his pupils. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• (1) "isiD (Scribe), the man whom God inspired to invent the alphabet; (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• bols were alre;iily in existence from tiie time the numerals were invented. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skilful men, to be on the towers and upon the corners, wherewith to shoot arrows and great stones. (Writings 2CH.26.15, JPS 1917) tree →
• Who invented the telephone? tree →
• We invented a new game at lunch. tree →
• The wheel was invented thousands of years ago. tree →
• She invented a machine to feed her cat. tree →
• He invented an excuse for being late. tree →
• Let's invent a story about a talking frog. tree →
• You will not learn how to invent anything." tree →

note

Regular verb: invented, inventing. The person is an "inventor", the thing is an "invention". Confusion: you "invent" something new, but you "discover" something that already existed, such as a new planet or a fossil.

In the corpora

• Bots can invent book titles and authors that sound real but do not exist.
• Many chatbots are trained to be helpful and pleasant, and sometimes that tips over into agreeing, praising and inventing.
• When a bot pretends to be a pirate or a footballer, it is still pretending; quotes it invents were never really said.
• It cannot see the future, so it invents next week's episode.
• A bot cannot know the future or secret scripts; its predictions are invented.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «invent» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.