Patent

['pæt(ə)nt;'peɪt(ə)nt] or ['pætnt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention.

(noun.) an official document granting a right or privilege.

(verb.) make open to sight or notice; 'His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him'.

(verb.) obtain a patent for; 'Should I patent this invention?'.

(verb.) grant rights to; grant a patent for.

(adj.) (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage; 'patent ductus arteriosus' .

整理:皮尔斯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.

(a.) Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.

(a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.

(a.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.

(a.) A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.

(a.) A writing securing to an invention.

(a.) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.

(a.) The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.

(v. t.) To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.

塞德里克錄入

同義詞及近義詞：

a. Open, apparent, evident, plain, obvious, manifest, clear, public, conspicuous, unconcealed, palpable, unmistakable, glaring, notorious.

埃斯特拉編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:obvious, evident, indisputable, plain,[See INT], Dubious, ambiguous,questionable

布鲁诺錄入

解釋/意思:

adj. lying open: conspicuous: public: protected by a patent: (bot.) spreading: expanding.—n. an official document open and having the Great Seal of the government attached to it conferring an exclusive right or privilege as a title of nobility or the sole right for a term of years to the proceeds of an invention: something invented and protected by a patent.—v.t. Pā′tent to grant or secure by patent.—adj. Pā′tentable capable of being patented.—ns. Pātentee′ one who holds a patent or to whom a patent is granted—also Pā′tenter; Pā′tent-leath′er a kind of leather to which a permanently polished surface is given by a process of japanning; Pā′tentor one who grants or who secures a patent; Pā′tent-right the exclusive right reserved by letters-patent.—n.pl. Pā′tent-rolls the register of letters-patent issued in England.—Patent medicine a medicine sold under the authority of letters-patent any proprietary medicine generally on which stamp-duty is paid; Patent office an office for the granting of patents for inventions; Patent outside or inside a newspaper printed on the outside or inside only sold to a publisher who fills the other side with his own material as local news &c.

艾拉編輯