invent

«invent» in Mova's school 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

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

• 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.