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What does invent mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word invent? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To design a new process or mechanism.
  2. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
  3. (obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.
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He felt he had to invent a cover story to go around this, to make it believable.
Why do we furiously invent new technologies to give us the illusion of stability and longevity?
If you invent a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door, so the saying goes.
What Holford has done is invent a new system called Glycaemic Load or GL, which measures quantity of sugar as well as quality.
If we don't invent a language, if we don't find our body's language, its gestures will be too few to accompany our story.
The author interjects that it would be easy to invent some pre-story reason if the book were a romance.

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