invention

Definition

  • noun: something invented
  • noun: productive imagination
  • synonyms: device, thought, idea

Examples

  • Don't believe everything she tells you. She's prone to 'invention'. [='exaggeration, lying']

  • The light bulb was one of the most important 'inventions' of the 19th century.

  • The stories he told about his military service were just 'inventions'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) - Yes? but if you think about it, it's troubling to realize that the Greeks, the Egyptians and the Indians had notion of "cells" centuries before the invention of the microscope and what to say about Darwin whom everybody took for a fool when he put forward his Theory of Evolution. (..)
    2014 Lucy