Crossword-Solution: INVENTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Invention | 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. |
| Invention | 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. |
| Invention | n. | Thought; idea. |
| Invention | n. | A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. |
| Invention | n. | The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. |
| 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. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with INVENTION (5)
Moreover, as was shown by what followed, she was oddly exercising the faculty of invention upon the speciality of the clever Jacquet Droz, the designer of automatic substitutes for human limbs.
Such private communication networks are typically kept distinct from Usenet by the invention of newsgroup names different from the universally-recognized ones.
That is what dismayed me: the sense of some hitherto unsuspected power, through whose intervention my invention had vanished.
Thus, linguistic invention in most subcultures of the modern West is a halting and largely unconscious process.
Such persons will look upon this body as a machine made by the hands of God, which is incomparably better arranged, and adequate to movements more admirable than is any machine of human invention.
Quotes with INVENTION (3)
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?
And in the years when your shadow leaned clear across the land as you lay abed nights with your heartbeat mounting to the billions, his invention must let a man drowse easy in the falling leaves like the boys in autumn who, comfortably strewn in the dry stacks, are content to be a part of the death of the world...
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Rock & Roll, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2000–2020).