verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make up/invent a story
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She confessed to making up the story of being abducted.
make up/think up/invent an excuse
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I made up some excuse about my car breaking down.
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We’d better think up an excuse, fast.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
ever
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The answer is one of the most neglected and abused kitchen appliances ever invented: the refrigerator.
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Olestrathe trade name is Oleanis unlike any other fake food ever invented .
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That, next to law enforcement, is the biggest bunk slogan ever invented .
■ NOUN
concept
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Why not invent some other legal concept or, for example, use the legal notion of partnership?
device
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Some one invents a scrambler device so people can use their Cellnet phones without the opposition listening in.
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After the war, the engineers had to invent some mammoth excavation devices to shoehorn them out.
form
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We have invented new forms of assistance to match the overall situation.
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It is extremely unlikely that if the House of Lords did not exist it would be invented in its present form .
game
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You can also invent little games , such as kicking a ball in a bucket or bowl of water.
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In 1979, it was the people who invented games rather than the participants who apparently needed to take drug tests.
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They use it with feeling and flair when they talk, tell jokes, invent word games , and do crossword puzzles.
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Richard Garfield invented a game that constantly breaks its own rules.
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In 1997, Rutgers seems intent on inventing another game .
language
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This process of coalition building is so well-known that some companies have invented their own language around it.
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This biological tendency is so strong that children can even invent a new language .
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He has-most difficult of all for architects-invented a language unmistakably his own.
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Thus, they invented their own language and communicated with other robots.
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If you invented a completely new language , nobody would understand it.
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Gordon has invented his own auxiliary language of abbreviation.
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You see, I am in the process of inventing a new language .
machine
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By the 1830s he was a revered scientist and had invented an electromagnetic coil machine .
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At Midvale and elsewhere, he would invent machines and other contrivances, a number of which he patented.
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Soon, Andrew Kay invented and patented a machine for grinding stones of a standard shape and improved finish.
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On any given night you simply couldn't see every decent band without inventing a time machine .
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Daedalus dislikes this tedious and wasteful business, and is inventing an in-situ laundering machine .
name
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We invent a false name , invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mall.
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They invented their own names for objects on the screen.
process
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It was widely believed that Eleanor Coade had invented a new process for making artificial stone.
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Until it was invented , this process took many people hundreds of hours of work.
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The world has invented many industrial processes which often create pollutants of a kind that do not occur in nature at all.
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I missed the maiden flight at Kitty Hawk and managed to be absent when Alan Dershowitz invented the appeal process .
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Tamayo said he would, but only if Remba could invent a process that would allow them to have a relief-like dimensionality.
story
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Mr Utterson knows that the true story will not be believed, so he invents a story to tell the police.
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They invented happy stories for each other.
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Mira starts by drawing a genealogical tree and then proceeds to invent stories to account for it.
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I think my father was sort of inventing his own stories to fit himself into the family.
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In order to strike the best possible bargain on setting-day the men might invent stories of difficulty and adverse conditions.
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Then have each group invent a story they could tell as they show others their magic boxes.
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The next day they invented another story , and then another.
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Would he invent a story , tell a lie, in order to persuade her to go with him?
system
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Cities fostered competition between service providers and invented new budget systems .
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They were all illiterate so I had to invent my own written system for the tongue-torturing phonemes.
term
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Turner did not invent the term , but merely gave it a new and more specialist application.
theory
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Von Neumann invented a mathematical theory of games.
ways
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Investment managers have invented various ways of making this kind of currency investment.
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To invent ways of doing things; to see what was needed and attack it without permission.
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Las Vegas is also busily inventing new ways of drawing in evermore customers.
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We are inventing ways to bring our readers that experience.
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They began to invent ways of doing it better.
word
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Extending this aim meant that signs had to be invented when no obvious word - sign equivalent existed.
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They use it with feeling and flair when they talk, tell jokes, invent word games, and do crossword puzzles.
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Huxley invented the word agnostic and, like many of his contemporaries, became one.
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There was much subsequent controversy about who invented the word and how to spell its derivatives.
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Second, it provides safeguards against the police inaccurately recording or inventing the words used in questioning a detained person.
■ VERB
claim
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Although we were unaware of the wartime centrifugal launcher proposals, we have never claimed to have invented the idea.
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He claimed later to have invented a method of transporting armed men across rivers using pontoons for shoes.
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The patentee almost lost his millions because rivals claimed that he had invented nothing, but merely copied the living world.
credit
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I was peeved to see Robert Kilroy-Silk credited with inventing the egg trick in a recent colour supp. profile.
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James Watt, who is credited with inventing the steam engine, did not.
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More importantly John Sadler is credited with inventing a method of transfer-printing on to earthenware tiles.
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Today, Ktesibios is credited with inventing the first honest-to-goodness automatic device.
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The calendar spotlighted black inventors, including Sarah Boone, credited with inventing the ironing board.
try
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Tell each group to try to invent a way to keep a jar of hot water hot for a long time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He invented fictional ancestors and a family history to impress the girls.
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He began inventing excuses for why he had done nothing to help.
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I invented reasons for never seeing him again.
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I began to invent reasons for staying away from work.
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It was proven that one witness's story had been invented.
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Kai invented some excuse about having a headache.
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Television was invented in the 1920s.
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The geodesic dome was invented by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1947.
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Theremin invented the weird electronic instrument that provided soundtracks to 1950s science-fiction movies.