(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.
Overhaul
Definition:
(v. t.) To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.
(v. t.) To gain upon in a chase; to overtake.
(n.) Alt. of Overhauling
Example Sentences:
(1) 'Snooper's charter': Theresa May faces calls to improve bill to protect privacy Read more Ken Clarke, the Conservative former home secretary, and Dominic Grieve, the Tory former attorney general, suggested there could be improvements to the new laws that overhaul the state’s surveillance powers.
(2) Campbell said that for the new initiative to succeed there needed to be a fundamental overhaul in the way sports clubs were organised and a determined move to professionalise coaching.
(3) The Volkswagen Group has announced €1bn (£750m) of spending cuts at its core VW division to help pay for a product overhaul following the emissions testing scandal that has rocked Europe’s biggest carmaker.
(4) Maybe he was simply obeying orders, since Gordon Brown is not about to sanction a radical overhaul of the tripartite system of financial regulation he created.
(5) Chelsea might recover under similar circumstances, but I reckon they need a pretty big overhaul.
(6) Today - with the federal election just around the corner - Kevin Rudd plans to share his plans for overhauling Labor’s policy on boat arrivals.
(7) I must also accept that Cameron recruits the best and the brightest, who just happen to be his schoolmates, and that education should be overhauled by a nostalgic zealot who has never taught and dismisses evidence.
(8) The American has not secured a major title since Torrey Pines for the 2008 US Open and, while overhauling Jack Nicklaus's record total of 18 majors was once a matter of "when", it is now very much a case of "if".
(9) Officials revealed that the monarch’s London residence needs a total overhaul to tackle a series of problems common to homes occupied by older people: the palace needs rewiring, new plumbing, asbestos removing, and redecoration inside and out.
(10) This will include extending the use of police-led prosecutions to cut the time the police spend waiting for the Crown Prosecution Service, overhauling the police complaints and disciplinary systems and making changes to the oversight of pre-charge bail.
(11) Under a major overhaul of the system, AS-levels will be separated from A-levels to become a separate qualification.
(12) A video obtained by the Mail on Sunday showing Flowers counting out £300 after being asked for "money for the coke" also sparked calls by Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie for the current system of authorising top bankers to be overhauled.
(13) Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is overseeing a civil service overhaul, accepted Tsipras' motion, saying it would give the government an opportunity to prove that its parliamentary majority is strong.
(14) When Mitchell, 41, took over in 2011 he carried out a huge overhaul, paying particular attention to discipline.
(15) The government’s tax discussion paper released earlier in the year advocated for an overhaul of the superannuation system , saying the current system will put pressure on the economy in the long run.
(16) Last week Stan Myerson, Northern & Shell joint managing director, revealed that the company is looking at overhauling its payments to independent producers making shows for Channel 5 , introducing more of a performance-related element to programme deals.
(17) At this time, the agency has signed a formal agreement with the Division of Federal Occupational Health to request continued assistance with "overhauling" their program.
(18) While this might boost the number of women executives in the short term, it could hamper progress in the long-run by preventing "a mass systemic overhaul" of UK corporate life.
(19) Sustained funding has overhauled the tube while Crossrail, Europe’s biggest infrastructure project, promises to spur regeneration in far-flung corners of town.
(20) The financial management systems and procedures have been overhauled to ensure proper accountability for public money," the DfE said.