Lexic.us

Definition of Innovate

1. Verb. Bring something new to an environment. "A new word processor was introduced"

Definition of Innovate

1. v. t. To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act.

2. v. i. To introduce novelties or changes; -- sometimes with in or on.

Definition of Innovate

1. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To alter, to change into something new. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Innovate

1. to introduce something new [v -VATED, -VATING, -VATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Innovate

Literary usage of Innovate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Germany by OECD Staff, OECD (2004)
"V. Improving the capacity to innovate Reviving the dynamism of the German economy also requires policy measures that strengthen productivity growth. ..."

2. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"This reluctance to innovate without necessity, and to swell the number of laws which all were bound to know and obey with an accumulation of transitory ..."

3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1852)
"... a strange pretension of empire over the Christian belief. But we proceed to other instances. THE Boman doctrine of indulgences was the first innovate ..."

4. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"... not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, ... innovate ..."

5. A Descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica: With Remarks Upon the by William Beckford (1790)
"... ter from the brakes, and excite the nightingale to innovate, and encourage him to continue long, ..."

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