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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring into existence; make, produce |
| Synonyms: | arrange, assemble, block out, bring about, build, cast, complete, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, consummate, contrive, cook up, create, cultivate, cut, design, develop, devise, dream up, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, finish, fix, forge, found, frame, hammer out, invent, knock off, make up, manufacture, model, mold, organize, outline, pattern, perfect, plan, plot, project, put together, scheme, set, set up, shape, structure, throw together, trace, turn out, work |
| Antonyms: | break, destroy, hurt, ruin |
| Main Entry: | hatch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, plan |
| Synonyms: | bear, brainstorm*, breed, bring forth, brood, cause, come up with, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, design, devise, dream up, engender, formulate, generate, get up, give birth, incubate, induce, invent, lay eggs, make, make up, occasion, originate, parent, plot, prepare, procreate, produce, project, provoke, scheme, set, sire, spawn, spitball, think up, throw together, trump up, whip up, work up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hurl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw forcefully |
| Synonyms: | bung, cast, chuck, chunk, fire, fling, gun, heave, launch, let fly, lob, peg, pitch, project, propel, send, sling, toss |
| Main Entry: | imagine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dream up, conceive |
| Synonyms: | brainstorm, build castles in air, conceptualize, conjure up, cook up, create, depict, devise, envisage, envision, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, figure, form, frame, harbor, image, invent, make up, nurture, perceive, picture, plan, project, realize, scheme, see in one's mind, spark, think of, think up, vision, visualize |
| Main Entry: | invent |
| 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: | jut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend |
| Synonyms: | beetle, bulge, elongate, impend, lengthen, overhang, poke, pop, pouch, project, protrude, protuberate, stand out, stick out |
| Antonyms: | indent, recede |
| Main Entry: | launch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | send off |
| Synonyms: | barrage, bombard, bung, cast, catapult, discharge, dispatch, drive, eject, fire, fling, heave, hurl, lance, pitch, project, propel, send forth, set afloat, set in motion, shoot, sling, throw, toss |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep |
| Main Entry: | lob |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | toss |
| Synonyms: | chuck, flip, hurl, launch, loft, pitch, project, propel |
| Main Entry: | overhang |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bulge, hang over |
| Synonyms: | be imminent, be suspended, beetle, cast a shadow, command, dangle over, droop over, endanger, extend, flap over, impend, jut, loom, menace, overtop, poke, portend, pouch, project, protrude, rise above, stand out, stick out, swing over, threaten, tower above |
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