Patent vs Flagrant - What's the difference?
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A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent.
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, title= A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent.
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To successfully register an invention with a government agency; to secure a letter patent.
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, title= (biology) open, unobstructed, expanded.
explicit and obvious.
(of flour) that is fine, and consists mostly of the inner part of the endosperm
Open; unconcealed; conspicuous.
* Motley
Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege.
Protected by a legal patent.
* Mortimer
Obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous
* 1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
(archaic) On fire, flaming.
As a noun patent
is .As an adjective flagrant is
obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous or flagrant can be (obsolete).patent
English
(wikipedia patent)Etymology 1
Short form of (etyl) lettre patente'', "open letter", from (etyl) ''littera patens .Noun
(en noun)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
Verb
(en verb)Karen McVeigh
US rules human genes can't be patented, passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented , a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) patent, from (etyl), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- That is a patent ductus arteriosus.
- Those claims are patent nonsense.
- He had received instructions, both patent and secret.
- letters patent
- a patent''' right; '''patent medicines
- Madder in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity.
Derived terms
* patentlyAnagrams
* ----flagrant
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Alternative forms
* flagraunt (qualifier)Etymology 1
From (etyl) flagrant, from (etyl) flagrantem, present participle of . More at (l).Adjective
(en adjective)- It is certain, therefore, that in all our notions of morals we never entertain such an absurdity as that of passive obedience, but make allowances for resistance in the more flagrant instances of tyranny and oppression.
