| query | If you refer to someone's account of something as an i________, you think that it is untrue and that they have made it up.If you refer to someone's account of something as an invention, you think that it is untrue and that they have made it up. In these and several other respects, there are many inventions and exaggerations. The story was certainly a favourite one, but it was undoubtedly pure invention. |
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| word | invention |
| full-definition | noun An invention is a machine, device, or system that has been invented by someone. It's been a tricky business marketing his new invention. The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention. Invention is the act of inventing something that has never been made or used before. In 1839, the invention of photography was announced to the world. ...the invention of the telephone. If you refer to someone's account of something as an invention, you think that it is untrue and that they have made it up. In these and several other respects, there are many inventions and exaggerations. The story was certainly a favourite one, but it was undoubtedly pure invention. Invention is the ability to invent things or to have clever and original ideas . ...his great powers of invention. |
| inflections | inventions |
| cefr-level | A2 |
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