0 to be the first person to make or use (eg a machine, method etc) -- mencipta
When was printing invented?
Who invented the microscope?
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.
The human mind, straining to interpret elusive detail at the limit of perception, invented narrow linear features that are simply not there.
The extraordinary stories that he invents or that he reports when he describes cities and regions are part of this tendency to exaggerate.
At the same time it seems likely that the bishop's enemies exploited rather than invented the offences for which he died.
My student teachers invented and adapted, culturally appropriate and socially relevant song lyrics, rhythmic chants and accompanying actions to create musical games.
We can now look at the details of what the young composers invented.
Neither way are pupils being helped to get better at inventing their own music.
A blueprint can be invented, sold, and used in the same period.
The methods he invented were extraordinarily simple and dim.
