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{
"term": "invent",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "invent",
"heSheIt": "invents"
},
"pastSimple": "invented",
"pastParticiple": "invented",
"ingForm": "inventing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to produce or design something that has not existed before",
"sensetop": "invent something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Who invented the steam engine?"
},
{
"text": "I wish mobile phones had never been invented!"
},
{
"text": "The term ‘sociology’ was invented by Auguste Comte."
},
{
"text": "He practically invented the modern stand-up comedy act."
},
{
"text": "Louis Braille invented an alphabet to help blind people."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["practically", "virtually", "single-handedly"],
"phrases": ["newly invented"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to say or describe something that is not true, especially in order to trick people",
"sensetop": "invent something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "What excuse did he invent this time?"
},
{
"text": "Many children invent an imaginary friend."
},
{
"text": "He considered inventing some pretext for calling her."
},
{
"text": "I did not have to invent any tales about my past."
}
],
"topics": ["Personal qualities"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvent/",
"audio": "in/invent/invent__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvents/",
"audio": "in/invent/invents__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈventɪd/",
"audio": "in/invent/invented__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈventɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/invent/inventing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvent/",
"audio": "in/invent/invent__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvents/",
"audio": "in/invent/invents__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈventɪd/",
"audio": "in/invent/invented__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈventɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/invent/inventing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘find out, discover’): from Latin invent- ‘contrived, discovered’, from the verb invenire, from in- ‘into’ + venire ‘come’."
}