0 to be the first person to make or use (eg a machine, method etc) -- mencipta
Who invented the microscope?
When was printing invented?
1 to make up or think of (eg an excuse or story) -- memikir
I’ll have to invent some excuse for not going with him.
In this view, phages could be considered as a powerful way of inventing new genes potentially beneficial to their hosts.
Admittedly, there is some interest in the proposal that alphabetical writing might first have been invented to conceal knowledge.
The courts have invented new laws, as in the new liabilities to restrain picketing during the miners' strike.
After all, the laws of war existed in some form long before the idea of the modern multilateral treaty had been invented.
A device known as the "lewis" was invented in answer to this need.
Her broadest claim, to have invented the mannequin, or live fashion model, was a blatant piece of self-puffery.
One could say that mechanical production set itself in opposition to something, and invented craft - making without machines.
The methods he invented were extraordinarily simple and dim.