Invent vs Uncover - What's the difference?
invent | uncover |
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 remove the cover of an object
To reveal the identity of
To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
* Milton
To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of.
As verbs the difference between invent and uncover
is that invent is to design a new process or mechanism while uncover is to remove the cover of an object.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 [...].
Synonyms
* fangle * discoverExternal links
* * 1000 English basic wordsuncover
English
Verb
(en verb)- The model railway was uncovered .
- The murderer has finally been uncovered .
- To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation.
- to uncover oneself