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PATENT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention

Synonyms:

patent; patent of invention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("patent" is a kind of...):

document; papers; written document (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))

Derivation:

patent (obtain a patent for)

patent (grant rights to; grant a patent for)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An official document granting a right or privilege

Synonyms:

letters patent; patent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("patent" is a kind of...):

instrument; legal document; legal instrument; official document ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

patent (grant rights to; grant a patent for)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

Example:

a palpable lie

Synonyms:

apparent; evident; manifest; palpable; patent; plain; unmistakable

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

obvious (easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind)

Derivation:

patency (the property of being easy to see and understand)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage

Example:

patent ductus arteriosus

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unobstructed (free from impediment or obstruction or hindrance)

Derivation:

patency (the openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make open to sight or notice

Example:

His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "patent" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

patency (the property of being easy to see and understand)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Obtain a patent for

Example:

Should I patent this invention?

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "patent" is one way to...):

procure; secure (get by special effort)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

patent (a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention)

patentee (the inventor to whom a patent is issued)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Grant rights to; grant a patent for

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "patent" is one way to...):

register (record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

patent (a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention)

patent (an official document granting a right or privilege)

patentee (the inventor to whom a patent is issued)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Patent blue V dye is used in sentinel lymph node (SLN) technique to guide nodal dissection or other imaging procedures.

(Patent Blue V Dye, NCI Thesaurus)

The invention has recently been patented in Brazil and the next step is to make it commercially available.

(New Brazilian fertilizer can boost productivity, Agência BRASIL)

The legal permission to use the work of an individual's original creation, such as trademarks, copyrights, patents, proprietary technologies and images.

(Intellectual Property Rights, NCI Thesaurus)

These are the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Representative examples include atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, tetralogy of Fallot, and patent foramen ovale.

(Congenital Heart Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

These UGR researchers have produced more than five joint scientific publications in high-impact journals and have secured two patents—on mechano-mutable asphalt (PCT/ES2014/071002) and pavement safety systems (P201631096).

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)

If, for example, you are filing a trademark or patent, under these twinkling stars, the future bodes well for your venture.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The next day, came the news that the murder had not been overlooked, that the guilt of Hyde was patent to the world, and that the victim was a man high in public estimation.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A procedure performed during a percutaneous coronary intervention in which a device is deployed into the lumen of a coronary artery to expand and support the vessel wall such that the vessel remains patent and blood flow is uninhibited.

(Cardiac Stent Placement, NCI Thesaurus)

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)