(n.) The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.
(n.) That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention.
(n.) Thought; idea.
(n.) A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
(n.) The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
(n.) The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts.
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.
Inventory
Definition:
(n.) An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business.
(v. t.) To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock.
Example Sentences:
(1) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
(2) The purposes of this study were to assess the career development needs of entering medical students as measured by the Medical Career Development Inventory and to examine gender differences in responses to the inventory.
(3) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(4) The department of dietetics at a large teaching hospital has substantially reduced its food and labor costs through use of computerized systems that ensure efficient inventory management, recipe standardization, ingredient control, quantity and quality control, and identification of productive man-hours and appropriate staffing levels.
(5) Several recommendations, based upon the results of this survey study, the existing literature relevant to the ethical responsibilities of investigators who conduct research with children, and our own experiences with these instruments and populations, are made to assist researchers in their attempts to use these inventories in an ethical manner.
(6) Results indicate that great care should be taken in interpreting scores on depression inventories in patients with Parkinson's disease.
(7) The present investigation examines the assortative mating coefficients for scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) from five separate studies.
(8) Psychologic depression as measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) in a cohort of 2018 middle-aged men employed at the Western Electric Company in 1957-1958 was positively associated with 20-year incidence and mortality from cancer.
(9) In 1984 the press-fit condylar knee was first introduced and was intended to provide a condylar knee system primarily for posterior cruciate retention that addressed refinements in metallurgy, prosthetic geometry and sizing, cementless fixation, inventory management, and instrumentation.
(10) The students completed four scales from the Life Values Inventory: (i.e.
(11) The three counties sampled showed surprisingly little deviation in the percentages of inventories suggesting alcohol production and in the preferences for specific types of drinks.
(12) For any blood type, there is a complex interaction among the optimal inventory level, daily demand level, the transfusion to crossmatch ratio, the crossmatch release period and the age of arriving units that determine the shortage and outdate rate.
(13) The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory questionnaire, recently validated in Spanish, was used to measure the students' anxiety associated with the examinations.
(14) The Side Effects Profile (SEP) and Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) were used to collect data.
(15) The clinical validity of these PIC-R subscales was also compared to that of the Minnesota Child Development Inventory (MCDI).
(16) In addition to better understanding why adolescents begin using marihuana, the inventory is intended to assist drug educators target their programs.
(17) 24 hospitalized borderline patients were administered an Attachment Style Inventory and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory.
(18) Several motor, perceptual and attention tasks and the Washington Psychosocial Seizure Inventory were performed before and after STP administration.
(19) In a retrospective study of 50 consecutive dementia patients, the DAT Inventory correctly identified 100% of DAT subjects and 94% of non-DAT cases.
(20) The inventory consists of 11 narrow-band and two broad-band scales, the Behavioral and the Cognitive.