Invent vs. Innovate

Inventverb

To design a new process or mechanism.

‘After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.’;

Innovateverb

To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.

Inventverb

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.’;

Innovateverb

(intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.

Inventverb

(obsolete) To come upon; to find; to discover.

Innovateverb

(transitive) To introduce (something) as new.

‘to innovate a word or an act’;

Inventverb

To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

‘And vowed never to return again,Till him alive or dead she did invent.’;

Innovateverb

To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act.

Inventverb

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.’;

Innovateverb

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.’;

Inventverb

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.’;

Innovateverb

To introduce novelties or changes; - sometimes with in or on.

‘Every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate.’;

Inventverb

come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort;

‘excogitate a way to measure the speed of light’;

Innovateverb

bring something new to an environment;

‘A new word processor was introduced’;

Inventverb

make up something artificial or untrue