Picture the moment something exists that did not exist before, because a person put it together in their head first — a machine, a method, a story. English lets this one noun cover the whole arc: the act of coming up with it, the thing that results, the knack for doing it, and — when what was made up is a story passed off as true — a lie.
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
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inventionnoun/ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
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Something invented.
- My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time.
- I’m afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper’s invention.
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The act of inventing.
- The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages.
- Invention, or the Genius of Hiſtoricizing and framing a Noble Idea upon the Subject one vvould Paint, is a particular Talent, not to be acquir'd by Study or Labour; but is properly a certain ardor exciting the Imagination, prompting and enabling it to Act.
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The capacity to invent.
- It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
- I particularly like the inventions in C-minor.
- INVENTION. A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces — 15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts — each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day.
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archaicThe act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
- That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。