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# invent

verb (invent, invents, invented, inventing)

«invent» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To make or design something new that did not exist before. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#m1)
2. To make up a story or excuse that is not true. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science and history, inventors invented things like the light bulb, the telephone and the bicycle; an invention solves a problem. In design lessons, pupils invent their own gadgets. In everyday life, inventing an excuse means making up something untrue. Phrases: invent a machine, invent a game, invent an excuse, invented by.

### Examples

- Who invented the telephone? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x1)
- We invented a new game at lunch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x2)
- The wheel was invented thousands of years ago. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x3)
- She invented a machine to feed her cat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x4)
- He invented an excuse for being late. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x5)
- Let's invent a story about a talking frog. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x6)
- You will not learn how to invent anything." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/#x7)

### Note

Regular verb: invented, inventing. The person is an "inventor", the thing is an "invention". Confusion: you "invent" something new, but you "discover" something that already existed, such as a new planet or a fossil.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Tradition speaks of the alphabet as something God inspired a scribe to invent, linking the making of letters to the making of the world. In the primary lessons: In science and history, inventors invented things like the light bulb, the telephone and the bicycle; an invention solves a problem. In design lessons, pupils invent their own gadgets. In everyday life, inventing an excuse means making up something untrue. Phrases: invent a machine, invent a game, invent an excuse, invented by.

### Examples

- Ginsburg asserts that the system of vowel polluting was invented by a Rabbi Mocha in Palestine about a.d. 570, who designed it to assist his pupils. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/invent/#x1)
- (1) "isiD (Scribe), the man whom God inspired to invent the alphabet; (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/invent/#x2)
- bols were alre;iily in existence from tiie time the numerals were invented. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/invent/#x3)
- And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skilful men, to be on the towers and upon the corners, wherewith to shoot arrows and great stones. (Writings 2CH.26.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/invent/#x4)

### Note

Regular verb: invented, inventing. The person is an "inventor", the thing is an "invention". Confusion: you "invent" something new, but you "discover" something that already existed, such as a new planet or a fossil.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «invent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/invent/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «invent» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/invent/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«invent» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/invent.html) on Mova free.