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| Main Entry: | invent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, think up |
| Synonyms: | ad-lib, author, bear, coin, come up with, come upon, compose, conceive, contrive, cook up*, design, devise, discover, dream up, envision, execute, fake, fashion, find, forge, form, formulate, frame, hatch, imagine, improve, improvise, inaugurate, initiate, jam*, knock off*, make, make up, mint, originate, plan, produce, project, turn out, wing*, bring into being, off-the-cuff, toss off |
| Notes: | The word discover goes back to Latin dis- and cooperire, meaning 'to remove the covering; completely uncover.' By 1553, it was used to mean 'seeing or gaining knowledge of something previously unknown' and 'finding out; bringing to light.' You discover ('uncover') something that is already there, something that has existed but is generally unknown - but you invent something that has never existed before. |
| Antonyms: | steal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fabricate |
| Synonyms: | concoct, conjure up, equivocate, fake, falsify, feign, fib, forge, lie, make believe, make up, misrepresent, misstate, pretend, prevaricate, simulate, vamp, create out of thin air, tell a white lie, tell untruth, think up, trump up |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
| Main Entry: | ad-lib |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improvise speech |
| Synonyms: | extemporize, invent, make up, speak extemporaneously, speak impromptu, speak off the cuff |
| Antonyms: | plan, prepare, rehearse, write |
| Main Entry: | bear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give birth |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, create, develop, engender, form, fructify, generate, invent, make, produce, propagate, provide, reproduce, yield, be delivered of, bring forth, parturitate |
| Antonyms: | be unproductive |
| Main Entry: | brainstorm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | problem-solve |
| Synonyms: | analyze, conceive, conceptualize, conjure up, create, deliberate, dream up, invent, plan, ponder, think, put heads together, rack brains, share ideas |
| Main Entry: | come up with |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suggest, create |
| Synonyms: | advance, compose, detect, discover, find, furnish, invent, offer, originate, present, produce, propose, provide, recommend, submit, uncover, bring forth, stumble upon |
| Main Entry: | compose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create writing, artwork, or music |
| Synonyms: | author, cast, conceive, contrive, cook up*, design, devise, discover, draw up, dream up, fabricate, forge, form, formulate, frame*, ghost*, imagine, indite, invent, knock off*, knock out*, make up, orchestrate, originate, pen, produce, put down, score, scribble, script, set up, time, turn out, whip up*, write, bang out, clef, coin a phrase, comp, fudge together, ghostwrite, note down, poetize, push pencil, put pen to paper, set type |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | concoct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | formulate, think up |
| Synonyms: | batch*, brew*, compound, contrive, cook up, create, design, devise, discover, dream up, envisage, envision, fabricate, frame*, hatch, invent, make up, mature, originate, plan, plot, prepare, project, scheme, vamp, ad lib, prefab, slap together, throw together |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | construct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, build |
| Synonyms: | build up, compose, compound, constitute, cook up*, create, design, dream up*, elevate, engineer, envision, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, found, frame, hammer out*, imagine, invent, make, manufacture, organize, produce, put out, put together, put up, raise, rear, set up, shape, throw up*, whip up*, cobble up, fudge together, hoke up, prefab, throw together, trump up, uprear |
| Antonyms: | annihilate, break, demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, ruin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cook up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | devise |
| Synonyms: | arrange, concoct, contrive, dream up, fabricate, falsify, formulate, frame, hatch, improvise, invent, make up, plan, plot, prepare, scheme, vamp |
| Main Entry: | create |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop in mind or physically |
| Synonyms: | actualize, author, beget, bring to pass, build, coin, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, design, devise, discover, dream up, effect, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, formulate, found, generate, hatch, imagine, initiate, institute, invent, invest, make, occasion, organize, originate, parent, perform, plan, procreate, produce, rear, set up, shape, sire, spawn, start, bring into being, bring into existence, cause to be, give birth to, give life to |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan, outline |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, arrange, block out, blueprint, cast, chart, construct, contrive, create, delineate, describe, devise, diagram, draft, draw, effect, execute, fashion, form, frame, fulfill, invent, lay out, perform, produce, project, sketch, trace, work out, dope out, set out, sketch out |
| Antonyms: | disorder, disorganize |
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, conceive |
| Synonyms: | compose, contrive, cook up*, devise, dream up*, fabricate, fashion, form, frame, invent, make up, originate, produce, think up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | determine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dictate, govern, regulate |
| Synonyms: | affect, bound, circumscribe, command, condition, control, decide, devise, direct, impel, impose, incline, induce, influence, invent, lead, limit, manage, measure, modify, plot, rule, shape, delimit, mark off |
| Main Entry: | devise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceive, dream up |
| Synonyms: | ad-lib, arrange, blueprint*, brainstorm*, cast, chart, cogitate, come up with, concoct, construct, contrive, cook up*, craft, create, design, discover, forge, form, formulate, frame*, get off*, hatch, head trip, imagine, improvise, intrigue, invent, machinate, make up, mastermind*, plan, play it by ear*, plot, prepare, project, scheme, shape, spark, vamp, whip up*, work out, dope out*, fake it, think up, throw together, trump up |
| Antonyms: | borrow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | find, uncover |
| Synonyms: | ascertain, bring to light, catch, come across, come upon, conceive, contrive, debunk, design, detect, determine, devise, discern, disclose, distinguish, elicit, espy, explore, ferret out*, glimpse, hear, identify, invent, learn, locate, look up, notice, observe, originate, perceive, pioneer, realize, recognize, reveal, see, sense, spot, turn up, unearth, dig up, get wind of, get wise to, light upon, nose out*, pick up on, smoke out, think of |
| Antonyms: | lose, miss, pass by |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | draft |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | formulate |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, block out, characterize, compose, concoct, contrive, delineate, design, devise, draw, draw up, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, invent, make, manufacture, outline, plan, prepare, project, rough, shape, skeleton, sketch |
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conjure up scenario |
| Synonyms: | brainstorm, conceive, concoct, cook up*, crave, create, daydream, devise, envisage, fancy, fantasize, formulate, hallucinate, hanker*, hatch*, hunger, idealize, imagine, invent, long, lust, make up, picture, pine, sigh, sublimate, think, thirst, visualize, be delirious, be moonstruck, be up in clouds, build castles in air, have a flash, have a nightmare, have a notion, have a vision, search for pot of gold, stargaze, think up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dream up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | concoct plan |
| Synonyms: | contrive, cook up*, create, devise, frame, hatch*, imagine, invent, make up, spin*, think up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | excogitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about seriously |
| Synonyms: | conceive, consider, contemplate, contrive, deliberate, derive, develop, devise, educe, evolve, frame, invent, mind, ponder, ruminate, study, weigh, work out, mull over, perpend, think out, think up |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore |
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