Invent vs Beget - What's the difference?
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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:
To cause; to produce.
To father (rarely: to mother); to sire; to produce (a child).
To happen to; befall.
Invent is a related term of beget.
As verbs the difference between invent and beget
is that invent is to design a new process or mechanism while beget is to cause; to produce.invent
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(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 [...].
Synonyms
* fangle * discoverExternal links
* * 1000 English basic wordsbeget
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Quotations
* , Genesis 5:3 *: And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: * {{quote-web, date=2012-02-01 , author=Kathy Gilbert, title=Pitching In, site=Chatter Chattanoogacitation, passage=Rugby football was created in the early 1800s at England’s all-boys Rugby School. The sport begat American football, Gaelic football, Australian rules football and Association football (aka soccer).}}
