Invent vs. Devise — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Invent and Devise
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Invent
To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.
Devise
To form, plan, or arrange in the mind; design or contrive
Devised a new system for handling mail orders.
Invent
To make up; fabricate
Invent a likely excuse.
Devise
(Law) To transmit or give (real property) by will.
Invent
To design a new process or mechanism.
After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
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Devise
(Archaic) To suppose; imagine.
Invent
To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.
We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.
Devise
The act of transmitting or giving real property by will.
Invent
(obsolete) To come upon; to find; to discover.
Devise
The property or lands so transmitted or given.
Invent
To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
And vowed never to return again,Till him alive or dead she did invent.
Devise
A will or clause in a will transmitting or giving real property.
Invent
To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; - applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.
Thus first Necessity invented stools.
Devise
(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
To devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing
Invent
To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; - in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.
Whate'er his cruel malice could invent.
He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst possible construction on others.
Devise
(transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
Invent
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort;
Excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
Devise
To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
Invent
Make up something artificial or untrue
Devise
To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
Devise
(obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
Devise
The act of leaving real property in a will.
Devise
Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
Devise
The real property left in such a will.
Devise
Design, devising.
Devise
To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument.
To devise curious works.
Devising schemes to realize his ambitious views.
Devise
To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
For wisdom is most riches; fools thereforeThey are which fortunes do by vows devise.
Devise
To say; to relate; to describe.
Devise
To imagine; to guess.
Devise
To give by will; - used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
Devise
To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer.
Devise
The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; - sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
Devise
A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.
Fines upon devises were still exacted.
Devise
Property devised, or given by will.
Devise
Device. See Device.
Devise
A will disposing of real property
Devise
(law) a gift of real property by will
Devise
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort;
Excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
Devise
Arrange by systematic planning and united effort;
Machinate a plot
Organize a strike
Devise a plan to take over the director's office
Devise
Give by will, especially real property
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