INVENTION Synonyms

• the act of discovering something

• something that is discovered

• a productive insight

• (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case

• a productive insight

• making an important discovery

• a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense

• any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients

• an occurrence of an unusual mixture

• the invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose

• the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components

• a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

• the faculty of contriving; inventive skill

• an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

• an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.

• any improvised arrangement for temporary use

• the act of devising something

• the human act of creating

• (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence

• an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone

• the event that occurred at the beginning of something

• the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

• everything that exists anywhere

• act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining

• a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation

• the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful

• a district that has been developed to serve some purpose

• a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

• processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible

• (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• writing in a fictional form

• the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

• the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

• the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

• the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation

• the decision of a court on issues of fact or law

• something that is found

• the act of beginning something new

• the first section of a communication

• formally making a person known to another or to the public

• a basic or elementary instructional text

• a new proposal

• the act of putting one thing into another

• the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

• originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel

• originality by virtue of being new and surprising

• a small inexpensive mass-produced article

• cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

• an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

• the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

• a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving

• the overthrow of a government by those who are governed

• a single complete turn (axial or orbital)

• an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

• the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon

• the event that occurred at the beginning of something

• the creation of something in the mind

• the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)

• an arrangement scheme

• something intended as a guide for making something else

• a decorative or artistic work

• an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

• a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something

• the creation of something in the mind

• make or work out a plan for; devise

• plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect

• create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner

• make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form

• create designs

• conceive or fashion in the mind; invent

• intend or have as a purpose

• thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it

• the creation of something in the mind