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# invent

«invent» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make or design something new that did not exist before** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (invent, invents, invented, inventing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make or design something new that did not exist before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#m1)

2) To make up a story or excuse that is not true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and history, inventors invented things like the light bulb, the telephone and the bicycle; an invention solves a problem. In design lessons, pupils invent their own gadgets. In everyday life, inventing an excuse means making up something untrue. Phrases: invent a machine, invent a game, invent an excuse, invented by.

### examples

- Who invented the telephone? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x1)
- We invented a new game at lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x2)
- The wheel was invented thousands of years ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x3)
- She invented a machine to feed her cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x4)
- He invented an excuse for being late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x5)
- Let's invent a story about a talking frog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x6)
- You will not learn how to invent anything." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: invented, inventing. The person is an "inventor", the thing is an "invention". Confusion: you "invent" something new, but you "discover" something that already existed, such as a new planet or a fossil.

### In the corpora

- [Bots can invent book titles and authors that sound real but do not exist.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/13/)
- [Many chatbots are trained to be helpful and pleasant, and sometimes that tips over into agreeing, praising and inventing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/2/)
- [When a bot pretends to be a pirate or a footballer, it is still pretending; quotes it invents were never really said.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/13/)
- [It cannot see the future, so it invents next week's episode.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/5/)
- [A bot cannot know the future or secret scripts; its predictions are invented.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «invent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.