Definitions for invents

invents in·vent

Spelling: [in-vent]
IPA: /ɪnˈvɛnt/

Invents is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in invents (einnstv).

Definitions for invents

verb (used with object)

  1. to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance:
  2. to produce or create with the imagination:
  3. to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false):
  4. Archaic. to come upon; find.

Origin of invents

1425-75; late Middle English invented (past participle) found, discovered (see -ed2) Latin inventus, past participle of invenīre to encounter, come upon, fin

Examples for invents

By using an alter ego, he liberates himself, relaxes himself so he can invent freely.

"That's as good a description of him as you could invent," he said.

I should be b-a-d, and I should sit up nights to invent new ways of evil.

I still do find it a tremendously useful device to invent a character and have the character sing the song.

Not surprisingly, the losers were now winning engineers; one of the MIT graduates had gone on to invent ear buds for Apple.

Did McCarthy invent the portrayal of violence in fiction, or should that laurel go to Homer?

I will move detachments and advance brigades, and invent strategy.

What could she invent, so to be before him in giving her charity?

As a Harvard undergraduate, he used systolic blood pressure readings to invent the lie detector test.

A telegraph operator, in their eyes, has no business to invent.

Word Value for invents
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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