inventing [in-vent]  
Main Entry:
invent  [in-vent]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: create, think up
Synonyms: ad-lib, author, bear, bring into being, coin, come up with, come upon, compose, conceive, contrive, cook up, design, devise, discover, dream up, envision, execute, fake, fashion, find, forge, form, formulate, frame, hatch, imagine, improve, improvise, inaugurate, initiate, jam*, knock off, make, make up, mint, off-the-cuff, originate, plan, produce, project, toss off, turn out, wing*
Notes: The word discover goes back to Latin dis- and cooperire, meaning 'to remove the covering; completely uncover.' By 1553, it was used to mean 'seeing or gaining knowledge of something previously unknown' and 'finding out; bringing to light.' You discover ('uncover') something that is already there, something that has existed but is generally unknown - but you invent something that has never existed before.
Antonyms: steal
* = informal/non-formal usage
Main Entry: ad-lib
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: improvise speech
Synonyms: extemporize, invent, make up, speak extemporaneously, speak impromptu, speak off the cuff
Antonyms: plan, prepare, rehearse, write
Main Entry: bear
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give birth
Synonyms: be delivered of, beget, breed, bring forth, create, develop, engender, form, fructify, generate, invent, make, parturitate, produce, propagate, provide, reproduce, yield
Notes: bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal
Antonyms: be unproductive
Main Entry: brainstorm
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: problem-solve
Synonyms: analyze, conceive, conceptualize, conjure up, create, deliberate, dream up, invent, plan, ponder, put heads together, rack brains, share ideas, think
Main Entry: come up with
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: suggest, create
Synonyms: advance, bring forth, compose, detect, discover, find, furnish, invent, offer, originate, present, produce, propose, provide, recommend, stumble upon, submit, uncover
Main Entry: compose
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: create writing, artwork, or music
Synonyms: author, bang out, cast, clef, coin a phrase, comp, conceive, contrive, cook up, design, devise, discover, draw up, dream up, fabricate, forge, form, formulate, frame*, fudge together, ghost*, ghostwrite, imagine, indite, invent, knock off, knock out, make up, note down, orchestrate, originate, pen, poetize, produce, push pencil, put down, put pen to paper, score, scribble, script, set type, set up, time, turn out, whip up, write
* = informal/non-formal usage
Main Entry: concoct
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: formulate, think up
Synonyms: ad lib, batch, brew*, compound, contrive, cook up, create, design, devise, discover, dream up, envisage, envision, fabricate, frame*, hatch, invent, make up, mature, originate, plan, plot, prefab, prepare, project, scheme, slap together, throw together, vamp
* = informal/non-formal usage
Main Entry: construct
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: assemble, build
Synonyms: build up, cobble up, compose, compound, constitute, cook up, create, design, dream up, elevate, engineer, envision, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, found, frame, fudge together, hammer out, hoke up, imagine, invent, make, manufacture, organize, prefab, produce, put out, put together, put up, raise, rear, set up, shape, throw together, throw up, trump up, uprear, whip up
Antonyms: annihilate, break, demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, ruin
Main Entry: cook up
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: devise
Synonyms: arrange, concoct, contrive, dream up, fabricate, falsify, formulate, frame, hatch, improvise, invent, make up, plan, plot, prepare, scheme, vamp
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