Decision vs Invention - What's the difference?
decision | invention |
A choice or judgement.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=
, volume=189, issue=2, page=10, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (uncountable) Firmness of conviction.
(chiefly combat sports) A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.
(baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
(boxing) To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout
Something invented.
* 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-10-05, volume=409, issue=8856, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The act of inventing.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The capacity to invent.
(music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two-'' and ''Three-part Inventions .
* 1880 , (George Grove) (editor and entry author), ,
(label) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
As nouns the difference between decision and invention
is that decision is a choice or judgement while invention is something invented.As a verb decision
is to defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout.decision
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US rules human genes can't be patented, passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}
Usage notes
* (choice or judgment) Most often, to decide something is to make a decision; however, other possibilities exist as well. Many verbs used with destination or conclusion, such as reach, (term), and (term) can also be used with (term); these serve to emphasize that the decision is the result of deliberation. Finally, some varieties of English prefer to take a decision rather than make one. * See for uses and meaning of decision collocated with these words. * Adjectives often applied to "decision": important, difficult, big, tough, bad, informed, easy, personal, smart, poor, good, quick, major, strategic, wise, serious, hard, stupid, hasty, responsible, complex, prudent, deliberate, significant, collective, delayed, challenging, careful, foolish, small, rash, thoughtful, slow, clever, forced, uninformed.Derived terms
* decisioning * decision making * decision tree * decision problem * decision procedure * decision theory * indecisionVerb
(en verb)External links
* (wikipedia) ----invention
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(en noun)- Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long distance at half past six. Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention .
The widening gyre, passage=British inventions have done more to influence the shape of the modern world than those of any other country. Many—football, the steam engine and Worcestershire sauce, to take a random selection—have spread pleasure, goodwill and prosperity. Others—the Maxim gun, the Shrapnel shell and jellied eels—have not.}}
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
page 15, Invention:
- INVENTION .?A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces?—?15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts?—?each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day.