Invent vs Detect - What's the difference?
invent | detect |
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:
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between invent and detect
is that invent is (obsolete) to come upon; to find; to find out; to discover while detect is (obsolete) detected.As verbs the difference between invent and detect
is that invent is to design a new process or mechanism while detect is to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.As an adjective detect is
(obsolete) detected.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 [...].