| VERB | creation | invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge | come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort / effort |
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| creation | invent, fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up | make up something artificial or untrue |
| Sounds | ihnveh'nt | |
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| Rhymes | accent ... vent: 69 rhymes with ehnt... | |
| Meaning | come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort / effort. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Model | Did he invent his major works over a short period of time? | |
| Synonyms | contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge | |
| Broader | create by mental act, create mentally | Create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands |
| Spanish | falsificar, formular, idear, inventar, tramar | |
| Catalan | falsificar, formular, idear, inventar, preveure, tramar | |
| Adjectives | inventive | (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Nouns | invention | the act of inventing |
| invention | the creation of something in the mind | |
| inventor | someone who is the first to think of or make something | |
| Meaning | make up something artificial or untrue. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up | |
| Narrower | confabulate | unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory |
| mythologize, mythologise | Construct a myth | |
| spin | make up a story | |
| trump up, concoct | invent | |
| vamp, vamp up | make up | |
| Broader | think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct | devise or invent / invent |
| Spanish | fabricar, inventar | |
| Catalan | fabricar, inventar | |
| Nouns | invention | the act of inventing |
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