INVENTION

n. 1 creation, origination, contriving, devising, conception, contrivance, introduction, development The invention of the screwdriver has spared many a broken fingernail 2 creation, contrivance, device, gadget, Colloq contraption, US gismo or gizmo Thomas Edison held patents on a huge number of inventions 3 fiction, figment, story, fantasy, fabrication, tale, fable, yarn, fib, tall story or tale, falsification, fake, sham, falsehood, lie, prevarication Her claim that the accident was my fault is a flagrant invention