English-Spanish translations for invent

• inventar
  Debemos inventar respuestas nuevas, actitudes sociales nuevas. We need to invent new responses and new social attitudes.
  En realidad el Consejo está tratando de inventar la rueda. The Council is actually inventing the wheel.
  De modo que tampoco debemos inventar malas respuestas a buenas preguntas. So we must not invent bad replies to good questions either.
• descubrir
  No tenemos que descubrir el Mediterráneo. We do not have to reinvent the wheel.
  La información genética sólo se puede descubrir, no inventar. Genetic information can only be discovered, it cannot be invented.
  En cualquier progreso humano se puede descubrir siempre una cara negra, una utilización desviada de las invenciones. In all human progress it is always possible to discern a dark side, where inventions are put to a perverted use.

Definition of invent

• To design a new process or mechanism
• To create something fictional for a particular purpose
• To come upon; to find; to discover

Examples

• After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
• I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.
• We need a name to put in this form, so lets just invent one.

Related words

• inventor
• invention
• reinvent
• inventory
• reinvention
• inventive
• invented
• inventorize
• inventiveness