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Definition of Inventing
1. invent [v] - See also: invent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inventing
Literary usage of Inventing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1906)
"By the art of inventing, wealth is created absolutely out of ideas alone.
It usually takes capital to develop an invention and make it productive, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... and .even of inventing and cre.it- According to Ле development theory all
education must be based on study of the nature to be developed. ..."
3. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"But that 's a fable, for our sex is frail, Inventing rather than not tell a tale.
Like leaky sieves no secrets we can hold Witness the famous tale that Ovid ..."
4. Universal Biography: Containing a Copious Account, Critical and Historical ...by John Lemprière by John Lemprière (1810)
"... and others, the honor of inventing printing. Boyer says, Laurentius of ...
claims the merit of regularly printing a book, and of inventing cut metal ..."
5. The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins by John Wilkins (1802)
"By inventing new words of our own, which shall signify upon compact. 2. Or by
such an alteration of any known language, that in pronunciation it shall seem ..."
6. Trials for High Treason, in Scotland: Under a Special Commission, Held at by Charles John Green (1825)
"... the charge of levying war against the King, is the subject of the second count;
the subject of the third count is, the inventing, devising, ..."
7. The Story of Notation by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1903)
"... arbitrary—The Greeks named their strings high and low with reference to length
not pitch—Names of all the strings—Necessity for inventing some means of ..."