Devise vs Invite - What's the difference?
devise | invite |
To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
* Bancroft
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To leave (property) in a will.
(archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
* Alexander Pope
(archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
The act of leaving real property in a will.
Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
* Bancroft
The real property left in such a will.
To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
To request formally.
To encourage.
* 1902 , Roosevelt,
To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
* Milton
* Dryden
* Cowper
As verbs the difference between devise and invite
is that devise is while invite is .devise
English
(wikipedia devise)Verb
(devis)- to devise''' an argument; to '''devise a machine, or a new system of writing
- devising schemes to realize his ambitious views
- Thus, the task of the linguist devising' a grammar which models the linguistic competence of the fluent native speaker is to '''devise a ''finite'' set of rules which are capable of specifying how to form, interpret, and pronounce an ''infinite set of well-formed sentences.
- I thought, devised , and Pallas heard my prayer.
- For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore / They are which fortunes do by vows devise .
- (Spenser)
Noun
(en noun)- Fines upon devises were still exacted.
See also
* device * devisingAnagrams
* ----invite
English
Verb
- We invited our friends round for dinner.
- I invite you all to be seated.
- I always invite criticism of my definitions.
- Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
- The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
- to inveigle and invite the unwary sense
- shady groves, that easy sleep invite
- There no delusive hope invites despair.