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invent
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1 invent
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.
synoniemen: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, formulate.
Roget 515:
imagine,
fancy,
conceive;
idealize,
realize;
dream,
dream of,
dream up;
give to airy nothing a local habitation and a give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name"
[Midsummer Night's Dream].
create,
originate,
devise,
invent,
coin,
fabricate;
improvise,
strike out something new.
set one's wits to work;
strain one's invention,
crack one's invention;
rack one's brains,
ransack one's brains,
cudgel one's brains;
excogitate†;
brainstorm.
give play,
give the reins,
give a loose to the imagination,
give fancy;
indulge in reverie.
visualize,
envision,
conjure up a vision;
fancy oneself,
represent oneself,
picture,
picture-oneself,
figure to oneself;
vorstellen [G.].
float in the mind;
suggest itself
etc.
(thought)
451.
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Roget 626:
plan,
scheme,
design,
frame,
contrive,
project,
forecast,
sketch;
devise,
invent
etc.
(imagine)
515;
set one's wits to work
etc.
515;
spring a project;
fall upon,
hit upon;
strike out,
chalk out,
cut out,
lay out,
map out;
lay down a plan;
shape out a course,
mark out a course;
predetermine
etc.
611;
concert,
preconcert,
preestablish;
prepare
etc.
673;
hatch,
hatch a plot concoct;
take steps,
take measures.
cast,
recast,
systematize,
organize;
arrange
etc.
60;
digest,
mature.
plot;
counter-plot,
counter-mine;
dig a mine;
lay a train;
intrigue
etc.
(cunning)
702.
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Nederlands: uitdenken
2 invent
Concoct something artificial or untrue.
synoniemen: cook up, fabricate, make up, manufacture.
Roget 544:
be false
etc.
adj.,
be a liar
etc.
548;
speak falsely
etc.
adv.;
tell a lie
etc.
546;
lie,
fib;
lie like a trooper;
swear false,
forswear,
perjure oneself,
bear false witness.
misstate,
misquote,
miscite†,
misreport,
misrepresent;
belie,
falsify,
pervert,
distort;
put a false construction upon
etc.
(misinterpret);
prevaricate,
equivocate,
quibble;
palter,
palter to the understanding;
repondre en Normand [Fr.];
trim,
shuffle,
fence,
mince the truth,
beat about the bush,
blow hot and cold,
play fast and loose.
garble,
gloss over,
disguise,
give a color to;
give a gloss,
put a gloss,
put false coloring upon;
color,
varnish,
cook,
dress up,
embroider;
varnish right and puzzle wrong;
exaggerate
etc.
549;
blague†.
invent,
fabricate;
trump up,
get up;
force,
fake,
hatch,
concoct;
romance
etc.
(imagine)
515;
cry 'wolf!'.
dissemble,
dissimulate;
feign,
assume,
put on,
pretend,
make believe;
play possum;
play false,
play a double game;
coquet;
act a part,
play a part;
affect
etc.
855;
simulate,
pass off for;
counterfeit,
sham,
make a show of;
malinger;
say the grapes are sour.
cant,
play the hypocrite,
sham Abraham,
faire pattes de velours,
put on the mask,
clean the outside of the platter,
lie like a conjuror;
hand out false colors,
hold out false colors,
sail under false colors;
commend the poisoned chalice to the lips"
[Macbeth];
ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat.];
deceive
etc.
545.
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Moby betekeniswoordenboek: beget, break ground, break the ice, breed, bring forth, bring into being, call into being, coin, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, contrive, cook up, counterfeit, create, design, determine, develop, devise, discover, dream up, engender, envision, evolve, experience imaginatively, fabricate, fake, fancy, fantasize, fictionalize, find, find out, forge, formulate, frame, fudge, generate, get, give being to, give rise to, hatch, hatch up, head, head up, hit, hit upon, hoke up, hunt down, ideate, imagine, improvise, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, introduce, introduce new blood, lead, lead off, lead the way, locate, make do with, make innovations, make up, manufacture, mature, mint, mold, neologize, neoterize, originate, pioneer, plan, precede, procreate, produce, rediscover, renew, renovate, revolutionize, run down, run to earth, shape, spawn, stand first, strike, strike out, suppose, take the initiative, take the lead, take the plunge, think out, think up, trace, trace down, track down, trump up, turn out, vamp up ... meer laten zien.
invented
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Roget 546:
untrue,
false,
phony,
trumped up;
void of foundation,
without-foundation;
fictive,
far from the truth,
false as dicer's oaths;
unfounded,
ben trovato [It],
invented,
fabulous,
fabricated,
forged;
fictitious,
factitious,
supposititious,
surreptitious;
elusory†,
illusory;
ironical;
soi-disant [Fr.]
etc.
(misnamed)
565.
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Moby betekeniswoordenboek: coined, conceived, concocted, cooked-up, discovered, fabricated, fabulous, fancied, fantasied, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, figmental, forged, hatched, legendary, made-up, manufactured, minted, mythical, new-minted, originated, put-up, trumped-up ... meer laten zien.
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