invents
Sayin-VENTS/ɪnˈvɛnts/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of invent.
The startup invents tools that help small farms track their water use.
My grandmother invents a fresh recipe almost every time she cooks.
Note
The present-tense form for a single third-person subject: she invents, the company invents. With I, you, we and they the bare invent returns, as it does after a modal or auxiliary (she can invent, does she invent?). It carries both living meanings, devising a new mechanism and making something up for a purpose (he invents an excuse). The older meaning "finds, comes upon" is obsolete.
invents is a form of invent
invent, verb: To design a new process, device, or mechanism that did not exist before. Full entry
- Spelling
- invent → invents: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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