INVENT

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invent verb tranzitiv

1. a inventa, a născoci; a descoperi; a găsi; a imagina;

to invent a new instrument a inventa un nou instrument.

2. (peior.) a inventa, a scorni, a născoci;

to invent calumnies against smb. a născoci lucruri defăimătoare la adresa cuiva, a scorni (tot soiul de) minciuni pe socoteala cuiva.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I am afraid, my dear, he has to invent it all, for it fits exactly into whatever else he has to say.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“What one man can invent another can discover,” said Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The original gamma camera invented by H. O. Anger in 1957 and its subsequent generations.

(Anger Camera, NCI Thesaurus)

However, whether Miss Delmar be jealous or not of the man who invented 'Ephemera,' it is certain that she, like thousands of others, is fascinated by his work, and that the day may come when she will try to write lines like his.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

But I could not help observing that he seemed to think he had hit upon a wonderful expedient for expressing himself in a neat, agreeable, and pointed manner, without the inconvenience of inventing conversation.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It must do the heads of the family a great deal of good to force all the poor housemaids and footmen to leave business and pleasure, and say their prayers here twice a day, while they are inventing excuses themselves for staying away.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

After waiting at home every morning for a fortnight, and inventing every evening a fresh excuse for her, the visitor did at last appear; but the shortness of her stay, and yet more, the alteration of her manner would allow Jane to deceive herself no longer.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

My dear fellow, said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am grateful to whoever invented it.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

When my thoughts go back, now, to that slow agony of my youth, I wonder how much of the histories I invented for such people hangs like a mist of fancy over well-remembered facts!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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