Invent vs. Innovate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Invent and Innovate
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Invent
To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.
Innovate
To begin or introduce (something new) for the first time.
Invent
To make up; fabricate
Invent a likely excuse.
Innovate
To begin or introduce something new.
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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Innovate
To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
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.
Innovate
(intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
Invent
(obsolete) To come upon; to find; to discover.
Innovate
(transitive) To introduce (something) as new.
To innovate a word or an act
Invent
To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
And vowed never to return again,Till him alive or dead she did invent.
Innovate
To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act.
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.
Innovate
To change or alter by introducing something new; to remodel; to revolutionize.
From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceedsto innovate God's worship.
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.
Innovate
To introduce novelties or changes; - sometimes with in or on.
Every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate.
Invent
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort;
Excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
Innovate
Bring something new to an environment;
A new word processor was introduced
Invent
Make up something artificial or untrue
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