Discovery vs Invent - What's the difference?

As a noun discovery

is something discovered.

to design a new process or mechanism.

Something discovered.

This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.

(uncountable) The discovering of new things.

The purpose of the voyage was discovery .

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(legal, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.

The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery .

(legal, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.

The defense argued that the plaintiff's discovery was inadequate.

(en verb)

To design a new process or mechanism.

After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.

To create something fictional for a particular purpose.

I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.

We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.

(obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:

Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].

* fangle * discover