Sentences with word invention

Synonym: conception, design, excogitation, innovation. Similar words: convention, conventional, prevention, intervention, invent, inventory, investigation, mention. Meaning: [ɪn’venʃn]  n. 1. the creation of something in the mind 2. a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation 3. the act of inventing. 

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(1) Necessity is the mother of invention. Plato 

(2) The invention is a collective effort.

(3) The dishwasher is a wonderful invention.

(4) Fax machines were a wonderful invention at the time.

(5) They demonstrated the new invention to us.

(6) The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention.

(7) The invention of the wheel was a milestone in the history of the world.

(8) He failed to patent his invention and never made a penny from it.

(9) The invention of the computer was a milestone in the history of man.

(10) This new invention will bring you great profits like a goldmine.

(11) This invention is ascribed to Edison.

(12) This story is apparently a complete invention.

(13) This new invention has an enormous sales potential.

(14) His powers of invention are somewhat limited.

(15) It’s a most useful invention.

(16) The new invention contains wonderful possibilities.

(17) This invention heralded the age of the computer.

(18) Come along[sentencedict.com], someone must want to know my invention.

(19) The whole story is a pure invention.

(20) His invention was not commercially successful.

(21) This invention marked the beginning of the modern age.

(22) They accredited the invention of the telephone to Bell.

(23) Most of what he says is pure invention!

(24) How long does it take to patent an invention?

(25) The obvious question is — does his invention work?

(26) Your invention is clever, but not practical.

(27) They generalised the use of a new invention.

(28) He signed away all his rights to the invention.

(29) The invention of printing caused important changes in society.

(30) This combination of cheese and apples is not an invention of the north of England.

More similar words: convention, conventional, prevention, intervention, invent, inventory, investigation, mention, attention, not to mention, pay attention to, identification, a bone of contention, investment, direct investment, invitation, conversation, orientation, presentation, concentration, implementation, representation, invest, investor, sentiment, inveterate, environmental protection, investigate, investigator, convenience. 

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process. (Wikipedia) (See all definitions)

As for cool modern inventions — none to add other than ones already mentioned.

PARENTING

The Romani people have long been associated with having psychic powers and are even commonly attributed with the invention of Tarot cards.

BOOKS

You just wonder how a camera could have possibly been so weightless, long before the invention of the Steadicam.

MOVIES & TV

So she did: Her art was the invention that kept her going; and death was the only thing that finally stopped her from making art.

ART

If used at KS3 it also acts as a grounding for any History of Medicine modules they might encounter at KS4 (hence the focus on public health and inventions).

EDUCATION

The sensitivity of touch, the rawness of the sexuality, the tactility of the forms, the wit and invention of the imagery, and the ethereal gradations of the charcoal line are masterful even by de Kooning’s very high bar.»

ART

We can think of securing priority of inventions and logos, but also personal identity or property information can be registered in an immutable way.

LAW

Some of us would probably even feel a vengeful twinge of self-righteousness seeing Zuckerberg and his cohorts caught at last with the smoking gun that proves their invention is not only bad for us, but just downright

BOOKS

That’s not to say I don’t admire all his «i» inventions….

RELIGION

Make Me A Millionaire Inventor «Just What The Doctor Ordered»: Deanne Bell discusses the invention process behind X-Suit, a garment designed to stop blood loss on the battlefield.

BUSINESS

«There are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a business that’s still going to be lousy.

BUSINESS

Living with the constant threat of war has spawned a culture of Israeli military research and development, and battlefield inventions have been transformed into technologies used worldwide to save lives, guard against cyber-attacks, and simplify mobile communications.

JOBS

Still, for those who truly relish Eco’s mix of philosophical rumination and intellectual intrigue, this wildly imaginative novel about the invention of longitude and its effect on the Renaissance world of international espionage is every bit as deserving of attention as its more famous predecessor.

BOOKS

What I find incredible is the change in mind set among scientists, since the invention and development of powerful computers, and the resulting ability to produce complex models.

ENVIRONMENT

What the appellant claims as an invention here is merely the discovery that by making certain calculations according to certain formulae, useful information could be extracted from certain measurements.

LAW

A room devoted to Rauschenberg’s work in performance and his collaborations with the likes of Trisha Brown, Cunningham and Yvonne Rainer feels, by contrast, constrained and oddly austere, so that you have to struggle among the archive photographs and documents to properly compass the wit and invention of his choreographic excursions.

ART

Mackey read tome after tome of economic theory — Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and Ludwig von Mises — with all of his discoveries pointing to a transformative revelation: Capitalism, he now believed, was humanity’s single greatest invention.

BUSINESS

By the time of 1968, Oscar succeeded in his venture as fashion enthusiasts from across the world started praising this invention and embracing it as fashion statements.

FASHION

And when it says «before the invention» it is referring to date at which you can prove you invented.

LAW

The students are definitely aware of how lucrative this invention can be.

ENVIRONMENT

Ando’s invention was a simple solution to a perceived market problem.

FOOD & BEVERAGES

But the more I looked at the whole system of technological invention, the more powerful and self-generating I realized it was.

SCIENCE

Have you scoffed modern amenities in the face and let necessity lead you to an invention lately?

FOOD & BEVERAGES

His many inventions, like the soft-gasket swim goggle, have changed the world of swimming and made it a more accessible and safer sport for millions of swimmers.

PARENTING

Section 39 (1) of PA 1977 provides that an employee’s invention belongs to his employer where it was made in the course of his normal duties or duties specifically assigned to him: this covers situations where employees are employed to conduct research or similar activities.

LAW

However, necessity is the mother of invention, so Christian sects will arise to cater to these consumers as they have for all others.

RELIGION

Moriyama’s achievements convey the artist’s boldly intuitive exploration of urban mystery, memory, and photographic invention.

ART

Rothko’s painting style has evolved from a realist mode in the thirties to the grave and monumental inventions of the 1950s.

ART

From left, the researchers Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for «the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.»

ENVIRONMENT

It functions as an undershirt with a very smart invention; a clip that can be attached to the nursing bra.

PARENTING

2017 in brief Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith A year of anniversaries, archives, discovery and invention.

ART

Nature’s inventions could inspire new biomedical solutions such as nanorobots propelled by flagella systems in the direction provided by their magnetosome chain.

SCIENCE

According to a family friend who was there: «While other visitors gazed at the working of this beautiful instrument with the sort of expression… that some savages are said to have shown on first seeing a looking-glass or hearing a gun… Miss Byron, young as she was, understood its working, and saw the great beauty of the invention.»

SCIENCE

History is replete with examples of inventions that combined two functions into one and revolutionized the world.

INSURANCE

As America’s most-cited judge, Judge Richard Posner, put it last year, «Judges have difficulty understanding modern technology and jurors have even greater difficulty, yet patent plaintiffs tend to request trial by jury because they believe that jurors tend to favor patentees, believing that they must be worthy inventors defending the fruits of their invention against copycats -LSB-…]».

LAW

But the other two tales feel relatively skimpy, with long periods of stasis between brief moments of bugfuck invention.

MOVIES & TV

Abattoir, his latest, may at heart be a haunted house movie, but it also disassembles and reconstructs that sub-genre with reflexive relish, and refurnishes those well-trodden hallways and basements with genuine invention.

MOVIES & TV

Eventually, he came to appreciate the laws, commenting they had «given a spring to invention beyond his conception.»

LAW

Processed all invention disclosures related to mobility solutions from Ford facilities around the world

JOBS

From Indy’s whip to guns to snakes to rats to pretty much everything else, Burtt takes us on an efficient and interesting tour of his inventions.

MOVIES & TV

Necessity is the mother of invention though, and under this stress and not wanting to disappoint these legal dreamers, I thought back to my days teaching marketing classes and the best feedback I received about helping people in their careers.

LAW

Once the researcher files an invention disclosure with the institution in accordance with the intellectual property policy, the technology transfer office evaluates the strength of the opportunity from an intellectual property and commercial perspective.

BUSINESS

You’ll know how to have a conversation with companies, and how to get them excited about your invention.

BUSINESS

New inventions in technology with the coming of digitalization of services in the field of medical science, digital marketing, etc..

BOOKS

The good news is that we know that innovation is a fundamental driver of economic growth, and America has led the world in innovation for the past two centuries — from the mechanization of textile manufacturing in the late 18th century to the invention of the Internet in the late 20th century.

ENVIRONMENT

Luigi told the professor that his brother Mario was mission, so Professor E. Gadd gave two of his inventions called «Game Boy Horror» to Luigi that will enable him to find Mario.

GAMING

ZP says: January 26, 2012 at 7:55 pm While reading about Maxwell’s demon, I came across an amazing invention that appears to shed light on the «gravitationally induced» temperature gradient idea.

ENVIRONMENT

Prior to Dr. Hood’s invention of the automated DNA sequencer, it took 30 years to sequence the genome of the cold virus, and the first gene cost $ 180 million to sequence.

SCIENCE

Charles Hard Townes, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for invention of the laser and subsequently pioneered the use of lasers in astronomy, died early Tuesday, Jan. 27, in Oakland.

SCIENCE

When the movie begins, Edison is already a famous «inventor», known most recently for the invention of the lightbulb, and Westinghouse has made an enormous fortune from air brakes and is in the natural gas business.

MOVIES & TV

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- изобретение, создание

the invention of the telephone — изобретение телефона 

- изобретение

to market / promote an invention — продвигать изобретение 
joint invention — коллективное изобретение 
to ascertain an invention — выявить изобретение 
service invention — служебное изобретение 
home invention — отечественное изобретение 
the telephone is a useful invention — телефон — полезное изобретение 

- выдумка, измышление, вымысел

his story is pure invention — его рассказ — сплошной вымысел 
the report was an invention of the sensational newspapers — сообщение было сфабриковано газетами, гоняющимися за сенсациями 
the invention of a false story — измышление лживой истории 

- изобретательность; выдумка

a poet without invention — поэт, лишённый фантазии 

- муз. инвенция

Invention of the Cross — рел. обретение честнаго креста 

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Necessity is the mother of invention. 

Нужда — мать изобретательности.

His new invention was put to use. 

Его новое изобретение было внедрено в практику.

It was incredible that nobody paid attention to the new invention. 

Немыслимо, что никто не обратил внимания на новое изобретение.

Necessity is the mother of invention. посл. 

Голь на выдумки хитра.

Government has certain rights in the invention. 

Государство владеет определенными правами на изобретение.

This invention will make you a millionaire. 

Это изобретение сделает тебя миллионером.

His explanation was pure invention. 

Его объяснение было чистейшей выдумкой.

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He is developing a prototype for his invention.  

Her invention has found its way into the shops.  

The invention of the airplane revolutionized travel.  

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• On his 100th birthday they asked him what he thought was the greatest invention.  (open, save, copy)

• The slickster lawyer is the invention of best-selling novelist Michael Connelly.  (open, save, copy)

• This is a brilliant new invention and its now being proven through its findings.  (open, save, copy)

• She envisions applying the invention to organ tissue regeneration in the future.  (open, save, copy)

• We see it like the industrial revolution or the invention of the printing press.  (open, save, copy)

• Research had been going on for many years as to the invention of the toothbrush.  (open, save, copy)

• It is this figure, Lyons writes, who informed the West’s re-invention of itself.  (open, save, copy)

• Once completed, the trio needed money to take their invention to the East Coast.  (open, save, copy)

• Coach Billy Gillispie noted how necessity is the mother of Kentucky’s invention.  (open, save, copy)

1. The creation of something in the mind [source]
2. A creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation [source]
3. The act of inventing [source]
4. An invention is a new composition, device, or process. An invention may be derived from a pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently conceived in which case it may be a radical breakthrough. … [source]
5. This is a listing of official releases by Phil Keaggy, an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist. [source]
6. This is a list of merit badges formerly offered by the Boy Scouts of America. In some cases, the entire subject has been dropped from the merit badge roster. In others, the merit badge’s name has been changed, with or without significant revision to the badge’s requirements. [source]
7. In music, an invention is a short composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with two-part counterpoint. (Compositions in the same style as an invention but using three-part counterpoint are known as sinfonias. … [source]
8. Conception of a new, useful, nonobvious idea followed by reduction to practice and communicated to a non-inventor. [source]
9. A unique object produced through the process of imagination and experience. [source]

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