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inventer — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • coin noun A small, flat piece of metal issued by a government as money.
  • contrive verb To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise
  • invent verb To create or design something new that didn't exist before.

Senses

inventer is used for these senses in English:

  • coin (by extension) To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).
  • come up with (idiomatic) To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
  • contrive To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
  • dream up To have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, to invent something unreal.
  • make up To invent, to imagine, to concoct

coin — full definition

  1. noun A small, flat piece of metal issued by a government as money.
  2. verb To invent a new word or phrase.

contrive — full definition

  1. verb To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise
  2. verb To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
  3. verb To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.
  4. verb To spend (time, or a period).

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