To come upon; light upon; meet with; find.To find out by original study or contrivance; create by a new use or combination of means; devise the form, construction, composition, method, or principle of.In general, to produce by contrivance; fabricate; concoet; devise: as, to invent the plot of a story; to invent an excuse or a falsehood.Synonyms 2 and 3. Discover, Invent. See discover and invention.