What's the difference between envision and invent?

Envision


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A porous structure, possibly involving a capsid and RNA complex, is envisioned.
  • (2) To develop this, longer-acting injectables or implants utilizing testosterone cybutanate (20AET-1), or other combinations of testosterone with a progestin or a gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist are envisioned.
  • (3) Applications in magnetic resonance and nuclear imaging are envisioned.
  • (4) Bowie was presented at the centre of German youth culture, while the city of Berlin was re-envisioned by the use of a soundtrack that included the ambient instrumentals from Low and Heroes .
  • (5) We find it to be a valuable adjunct for envisioning three-dimensional relationships.
  • (6) Thank God, then, for The Execution Of Gary Glitter (Mon, 9pm, Channel 4), which vividly envisions the trial and subsequent capital punishment of pop's most reviled sex offender so you don't have to.
  • (7) This represents a substantial cost to the patient, from which no benefit can be envisioned.
  • (8) In the coming year the halving of maternal mortality is envisioned through prevention of anemia, tetanus, and extensive contraceptive use.
  • (9) We conducted a retrospective assessment of the fitting characteristics obtained with the Boston Envision rigid gas permeable contact lens to determine the best parameter for selecting an initial base curve.
  • (10) "[Kerry] was talking about the kind of future Israel wants and the kind of future both Israelis and Palestinians would want to envision.
  • (11) However, a more negative future for the speciality can be envisioned, as well.
  • (12) We examined the mechanism underlying the rapid (15-120 min) glucocorticoid-mediated increase in the synthesis of proteins envisioned as mediators of the initial steroid effects in thymic lymphocytes.
  • (13) His sexist commentary and anti-woman statements, coupled with the Republican policy positions he espouses, make it virtually impossible to envision any scenario whereby 50% of female voters would cast their ballots for him.
  • (14) It is difficult to envision how serious underrepresentation of minorities in allied health will be affected by this legislation.
  • (15) As envisioned during the infant years, this application has fallen considerably short of expectations, especially regarding instructional applications.
  • (16) A three-point attachment of sn-1,2-diacylglycerol to the surface-bound protein kinase C-phosphatidylserine-Ca2+ complex is envisioned to cause activation.
  • (17) This structure, while not easy to envision, is nonetheless as plausible a basis for theory as any science requires.
  • (18) One class of hypotheses proposed to explain the anterior to posterior sequence of chick somite formation envisions the movement of morphogenetic substances or processes along the segmental plate prior to somite formation.
  • (19) He showed his true political colours when he wrote that "the class issue has actually been successfully resolved in the west … the egalitarianism of modern America represents the essential achievement of the classless society envisioned by Marx."
  • (20) We do not envision this as the full measure of de-escalation."

Invent


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
  • (v. t.) To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.
  • (v. t.) To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the things Yang has said he wants to investigate is: "This state we're in ... a moment when we have to negotiate our past while inventing our present."
  • (2) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
  • (3) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
  • (4) Since its invention a few years ago, the atomic force microscope has become one of the most widely used near-field microscopes.
  • (5) No, Did they invent sliding fingers across substances?
  • (6) They just lacked the invention to find a way through.
  • (7) Three times a week, he rolled his wheelchair up to a computer monitor and allowed scientists from Battelle , a nonprofit research organisation that invented the technology they hoped would let him move his hand with his thoughts again, to plug into his brain.
  • (8) The cecal foramen pointer was invented for a Sistrunk median cervical cyst operation.
  • (9) Inside, the tiles and the stained glass are said to be perfection, matched against murals that depict the inventions of the industrial revolution and the signing of the Magna Carta.
  • (10) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
  • (11) The words you attribute to Mr Mitchell are an invention and they were invented for the same reason – because you could not conceivably have justified giving a Public Order Act warning on what Mr Mitchell actually said.” Rowland said: “No, the evidence I have given is the truth.
  • (12) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
  • (13) Apple has used the month of January to launch revolutionary products before, in part as a way of diverting attention from its rivals presenting their latest inventions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which Apple does not attend, and that takes place the same month.
  • (14) Southampton remained the more inventive in the second half.
  • (15) Holden Caulfield puts it in a slightly different way: "I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented.
  • (16) "I used to hate lions," he adds, "but now, because my invention is saving my father's cows and the lions, we are able to stay with the lions without any conflict."
  • (17) After that is accomplished I will change all history books to say that I have invented the frisbee and that this is the most important invention ever.
  • (18) With the invention of the laser, many clinical disciplines have taken advantage of this new energy source.
  • (19) At last, as we have found, also in Ethiopia, stone-tools more than three million years old in association with Australopithecus, it seems that the very first made tools were the invention of prehumans who did not have yet the hands completely free from locomotion.
  • (20) It captures the fact that the eclectic and inventive Adams - who cut his compositional teeth as a member of the minimalist school in the 1970s and 1980s, and then moved on into less strict forms of tonal music - is almost certainly America's most widely performed contemporary composer.

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