Definitions for patent

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Spelling: [pat-nt or for 10, 12–15, peyt-; especially British
IPA: /ˈpæt nt or for 10, 12–15, ˈpeɪt-; especially British ˈpeɪt nt/

Patent is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in patent (aenptt).

Definitions for patent

noun

  1. the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
  2. an invention or process protected by this right.
  3. an official document conferring such a right; letters patent.
  4. the instrument by which the government of the United States conveys the legal fee-simple title to public land.
  5. patent leather.

adjective

  1. protected by a patent; patented:
  2. pertaining to, concerned with, or dealing with patents, especially on inventions:
  3. conferred by a patent, as a right or privilege.
  4. holding a patent, as a person.
  5. readily open to notice or observation; evident; obvious:
  6. made of patent leather:
  7. lying open; not enclosed or shut in:
  8. Chiefly Botany. expanded or spreading.
  9. open, as a doorway or a passage.
  10. Phonetics. open, in various degrees, to the passage of the breath stream.

verb (used with object)

  1. to take out a patent on; obtain the exclusive rights to (an invention, process, etc.) by a patent.
  2. to originate and establish as one's own.
  3. Metallurgy. to heat and quench (wire) so as to prepare for cold-drawing.
  4. to grant (public land) by a patent.

Origin of patent

1250-1300; (adj.) Middle English Latin patent- (stem of patēns) open, orig. present participle of patēre to stand wide open; (noun) Middle English, short for letters patent, translation of Me

Examples for patent

It is a patent declaration: "This is only a play; laugh and we are content."

But the unreasonableness of such a suspicion was patent, and Mr Verloc held his tongue.

In return Vail was to receive one-fourth of the patent rights in that country.

The day ends in Iowa, of all places, with a one-sentence entry: “Christian K. Nelson took out a patent on the Eskimo Pie.”

The American patent was obtained by Morse on October 3, 1837.

The turners, Fig. 4, in the germinating cases are Saladin's patent.

Having received a patent on the technology in 1986, Hull founded 3D Systems to commercialize his discoveries.

Models wore black knee-socks with patent leather Mary Janes and thick neckties.

The accessories embodied the urban, street persona of the ‘new’ Marc by Marc Jacobs: black belts (or obis) and patent high tops.

Language from the patent mandates that the technology be used with “hearing device, headphones, ear buds, or headsets.”

Word Value for patent
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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