What's the difference between fictitious and invented?

Fictitious


Definition:

  • (a.) Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So, they start to create these almost fictitious things they can sell, whether it’s a prime shelf [at the height a shopper is most likely to see] or a gondola end [the promotional buckets often found at the top of the aisle].
  • (2) Participants in these three groups responded to questions regarding the ethical parameters of a fictitious psychological research protocol.
  • (3) Synchronization of fictitious scratching with passive moving occurred at the first movement cycle, the phase correlation between them being contrary to that of real scratching.
  • (4) Allegations of mistreatment by adults made by children of preschool age are often dismissed as fictitious with the suggestion that children of this age are prone to fantasy and unable to discriminate fact from fiction.
  • (5) They orginally had lofty ambitions of talking about the economy but since they have lost that argument so catastrophically, they have reached for the Ukip playbook to create fictitious stories to scare people about immigrants and release video nasties about Turkish people”.
  • (6) Conrad's fictitious province of Sulaco broke away from a South American republic named Costaguana, over a silver mine.
  • (7) Far from absurd and fictitious, state-led cyber espionage is perfectly logical and real.
  • (8) The survival signature, i.e., the functional dependence of cell survival from cooling rate (determined at a single location), for a fictitious cell kind is also influenced by the location of temperature determination: the "optimum" cooling rate seems to be shifted, and the shape of the signature is changed depending on the location where the cooling rate is determined.
  • (9) The response to this criticism is usually a spirited defense of the social worker investigation and data distinguishing false ("fictitious") claims from unsubstantiated cases.
  • (10) Sitting with him as he spoke were Sigourney Weaver and Joel David Moore, who starred in Avatar , which charts the fight of the fictitious Na'vi people against outside attempts to pillage their resources on the planet Pandora.
  • (11) Fictitious scratching was accompanied by tonic and phasic primary afferent depolarization.
  • (12) Spiders starting at the fictitious retreat point did not keep straight courses.
  • (13) China reacted angrily calling the charges "fictitious" and "absurd", and denying that the country had ever been involved in digital theft.
  • (14) Seven trained persons interviewed three individuals who reported fictitious interrelated life histories varying in length and complexity.
  • (15) 9% of this cohort refused the repeated (fictitious) surgery.
  • (16) One biographer has noted how "the reports of his sexual liaisons – both factual and fictitious – leaked from the private realm to fuel the hectic debate over his qualities as a public man".
  • (17) He also said that he had immediately dismissed a request by the reporters to establish an all-party parliamentary group to help their fictitious client.
  • (18) Claims by the captured Iraqi fighters that they were tortured and some survivors killed were proved to be fictitious by the al-Sweady inquiry.
  • (19) Even Ethan Lipton's show is in on the joke: his fictitious job is that of an "information-refiner".
  • (20) The two experimental groups showed no significant differences in the volume of distribution and the fictitious initial concentration.

Invented


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Invent

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.