Verb

(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 [...].

Verb

(head)

(create)

Verb

(creat)

To put into existence.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author= , volume=100, issue=2, page=171, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Well-connected Brains , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.

To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content",

To be creative, imaginative.

To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.

* , chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace.

To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or restored for the incumbent.

To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre?existent title (notably a church in Rome).