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01. The telephone was [invented] by Alexander Graham Bell.
02. The home computer is one of the most important [inventions] of our generation.
03. Thomas Edison was one of the greatest [inventors] in history.
04. The philosopher Voltaire once remarked that if God did not exist, it would be necessary to [invent] him.
05. The children [invented] all kinds of excuses to avoid doing housework.
06. The [invention] of the printing press changed the world.
07. My children can't believe that the CD hadn't been [invented] when I was a kid.
08. Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard once said, "I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it, we are [inventing] ways to shorten it."
09. Thomas Edison once remarked that to [invent], you need a good imagination, and a pile of junk.
10. André Maurois once said that we owe to the Middle Ages the two worst [inventions] of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.
11. There is an old proverb which states that necessity is the mother of [invention].
12. Ramen, those dried noodles which are popular with college students as a cheap, quick meal, were [invented] by Momofuku Ando in 1948.
13. In 1875, Henry Nestlé, a maker of evaporated milk, and Daniel Peter, a chocolate maker, got together and [invented] milk chocolate.
14. Universal, state-supported school is a modern [invention] dating from the nineteenth century.
15. Someone once joked, "Here's a new [invention] - a solar-powered clothes dryer. It's called a clothes line."
16. The four most important [inventions] of the Chinese are widely accepted to be paper, printing, gunpowder, and the compass.
17. Scotland's most famous game is golf, which was [invented] there in the 1100s.
18. Karl Benz of Germany is credited with [inventing] the first automobile in 1885.
19. Ice cream was [invented] in China around 2000 B.C. when the Chinese packed a soft milk-and-rice mixture in snow.
20. Thomas Edison, [inventor] of the light bulb, was afraid of the dark.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • Invent — In*vent , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Invented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inventing}.] [L. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come upon, to find, invent; pref. in in + venire to come, akin to E. come: cf. F. inventer. See {Come}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To come or light …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • invent — 1 *contrive, devise, frame, concoct Analogous words: initiate, inaugurate (see BEGIN): institute, *found, establish 2 Invent, create, discover are comparable terms frequently confused in the sense of to bring into being something new. Invent (see …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • invent — in‧vent [ɪnˈvent] verb [transitive] 1. to make, design or produce something new or a new way of doing something: • Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven. • Mr. Monaghan virtually invented the modern pizza delivery business when he founded… …   Financial and business terms

  • invent — in·vent vt: to create or produce for the first time in·ven·tor n Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. invent …   Law dictionary

  • invent — [v1] create, think up ad lib, author, bear, bring into being, coin, come upon, come up with, compose, conceive, contrive, cook up*, design, devise, discover, dream up, envision, execute, fake, fashion, find, forge, form, formulate, frame, hatch,… …   New thesaurus

  • invent — [in vent′] vt. [ME inventen < L inventus, pp. of invenire, to come upon, meet with, discover < in , in, on + venire, to COME] 1. to think up; devise or fabricate in the mind [to invent excuses] 2. to think out or produce (a new device,… …   English World dictionary

  • invent — (v.) late 15c., find, discover, a back formation from invention or else from L. inventus, pp. of invenire “to come upon; devise, discover” (see INVENTION (Cf. invention)). Meaning make up, think up is from 1530s, as is that of produce by… …   Etymology dictionary

  • invent — ► VERB 1) create or design (a new device, process, etc.). 2) make up (a false story, name, etc.). DERIVATIVES inventor noun. ORIGIN Latin invenire contrive, discover …   English terms dictionary

  • invent */*/ — UK [ɪnˈvent] / US verb [transitive] Word forms invent : present tense I/you/we/they invent he/she/it invents present participle inventing past tense invented past participle invented Collocations: If you are the first person to make a new type of …   English dictionary

  • invent — inventible, inventable, adj. /in vent /, v.t. 1. to originate or create as a product of one s own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph. 2. to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story. 3. to make up… …   Universalium

  • invent — [[t]ɪnve̱nt[/t]] invents, inventing, invented 1) VERB If you invent something such as a machine or process, you are the first person to think of it or make it. [V n] He invented the first electric clock... [V n] Writing had not been invented as… …   English dictionary

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