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imagining
English
Noun
imagining (plural imaginings)
- Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.
- 1977, Cat Stevens, (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard in Izitso, Dave Kershenbaum & Cat Stevens,
- Remember the days of the old schoolyard / When we had imaginings and we had / All kinds of things and we laughed / And needed love […]
- 2006, Jessica Page Morrell, Between the Lines, Writer's Digest Books, page 15,
- Stories became part of the human existence, and since those first tales, some bathed in firelight, stories have transported listeners from their ordinary concerns into the world created by the storyteller and their own imaginings.
- 1977, Cat Stevens, (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard in Izitso, Dave Kershenbaum & Cat Stevens,
Verb
imagining
- present participle of imagine
- present participle of imagin
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invention
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French invencion, envention, from the Latin inventi?, from inveni?. Doublet of inventio.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n?v?n??n/
Noun
invention (countable and uncountable, plural inventions)
- Something invented.
- (here signifying a process or mechanism not previously devised)
- (here signifying a fiction created for a particular purpose)
- 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
- Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long distance at half past six. […] Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention.
- The act of inventing.
- The capacity to invent.
- (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
- 1880, George Grove (editor and entry author), A Dictionary of Music and Musicians II, London: Macmillan & Co., page 15, Invention:
- INVENTION.?A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces?—?15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts?—?each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day.
- 1880, George Grove (editor and entry author), A Dictionary of Music and Musicians II, London: Macmillan & Co., page 15, Invention:
- (archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
Synonyms
- discovery
Related terms
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “invention”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inventi?, inventi?nem, from invenio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.v??.sj??/
Noun
invention f (plural inventions)
- invention
Derived terms
- la nécessité est la mère de l'invention
Related terms
- inventer
- inventeur
Further reading
- “invention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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