Invent vs Befind - What's the difference?
invent | befind |
To design a new process or mechanism.
To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
(obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:
(obsolete) To find; discover.
(obsolete) To invent; contrive.
(passive, obsolete) To be found; be.
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In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between invent and befind
is that invent is (obsolete) to come upon; to find; to find out; to discover while befind is (obsolete) to invent; contrive.As verbs the difference between invent and befind
is that invent is to design a new process or mechanism while befind is (obsolete) to find; discover.invent
English
Verb
(en verb)- After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
- 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.
- Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].