Synonym: conception, design, excogitation, innovation. Similar words: convention, conventional, prevention, intervention, invent, inventory, investigation, mention. Meaning: [ɪn'venʃn] n. 1. the creation of something in the mind 2. a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation 3. the act of inventing.
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(91) With the invention of the electric guitar, rock 'n' roll was born.
(92) Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely. Alexander Pope
(93) The invention also became applicable in other fields, including banking.
(94) It would seem that the date of the invention of the mechanical clock is probably some time between 1280 and 1300.
(95) The Mandelbrot set is not an invention of the human mind: it was a discovery.
(96) But then so did men for many generations after the invention of agriculture.
(97) The invention of the X-ray was a classic case of discovering something by accident.
(98) Use a diffuser - the greatest frizz-beating invention ever - to dry your hair gently and evenly.
(99) It was a long time after their invention that yarn spinners adapted them for their own purposes.
(100) The electric light was an invention with profound existential consequences.
(101) The invention of the tank and the aircraft broke through the defensive stalemate that had characterised the first world war.
(102) As far as can be made out,(sentencedict.com) systems of fingerspelling have always come about by hearing invention.
(103) Wilson said his idea for the invention started out as a dare.
(104) The first payphones were introduced in Britain in 1884, eight years after the invention of the telephone.
(105) Hailed as a great technological invention it immediately became the subject of debates concerning its aesthetic status and social uses.
(106) The evolution of the curtain wall went hand in hand with the invention of the steel framework.
(107) Note too the typical rhomboidal treatment of the ceiling, almost Art Deco in feel, but again a Bohemian invention.
(108) Had Stark known from the beginning that the story of the upstate boyhood was all an invention?
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(109) The employer had, therefore, to incur heavy development costs before any net tangible benefits would accrue from the invention.
(110) It is on the underside of this plate that the bellicose termite constructs its most spectacular architectural invention.
(111) After all, stranger things have happened: legend has it that the hooked burrs of plants inspired the invention of Velcro.
(112) Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most trans formative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. J. K. Rowling
(113) I don't care for the practice of polling because of polling because it is direct descendant of that fraudulent invention sociology.
(114) This would be possible were it merely a matter of invention or were the hazards of modern economic life increasing.
(115) It's probably the single most significant invention of the industrial age, in terms of its effect on our everyday lives.
(116) From about the time of the invention of red-figure some black-figure vases are given a white slip covering the orange clay.
(117) If the searches uncover similar ideas you may need to modify your invention to get around areas others bagged first.
(118) The increased productivity that results from invention raises the real incomes and spending power of those who benefit from the new technology.
(119) This was all happening half a century ago, before the invention of the aqualung.
(120) Each has already developed its own characteristic way of exploiting that major insect invention, flight.
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