Meaning of patent | Babel Free

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1. An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent. A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods. A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period. A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent
2. An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.
   countable, uncountable
3. An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent
4. A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods.
   countable, specifically, uncountable
5. an official licence from the government giving one person or business the right to make and sell a particular article and to prevent others from doing the same. She took out a patent on her design; (also adjective) a patent process. patent بَراءَة الإخْتِراع патент patente patent(ový) das Patent; Patent-... patent; patentrettighed; patent- δίπλωμα ευρεσιτεχνίας, πατέντα patente patent جواز حق انحصاری patentti brevet; breveté רִישָׁיוֹן פָּטֶנְט पेटेंट, एकस्व, सुन्दर तरीका patetnt szabadalom p...
   also adjective
6. A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods. A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period
7. A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.
   countable, specifically, uncountable
8. to obtain a patent for; He patented his new invention. patenteer يَحْصَل على بَراءَة الإخْتِراع получавам патент за patentear dát si patentovat patentieren patentere κατοχυρώνω με δίπλωμα ευρεσιτεχνίας, πατεντάρωpatentar patenteerima به ثبت رساندن patentoida faire breveter לִרשוֹם פָּטֶנְט एकस्व प्राप्त करना, पेटेंट कराना patentirati szabadalmaztat mendapatkan paten fá einkaleyfi brevettare 特許を取る 특허를 받다 (uþ)patentuoti patentēt mematenkan een patent verkrijgen voor ta patent på, patentere opat...
   He patented his new invention
9. A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods
10. A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent.
    US, countable, historical, uncountable
11. shoes made of shiny leather. blinkleerskoene حِذاء مِن جِلْد لَمّاع лачени обувки sapatos de couro brilhante lakýrky laksko λουστρίνια zapatos de charol lakknahk کفش ورنی kiiltonahkakengät עור לכה, מבריק चमकीला चमड़े वाला जूता lakirana koža lakkbőr cipő sepatu kulit mengkilap (scarpe di vernice) 에나멜 가죽 구두 lakiniai batai lakādas kurpes kasut kulit kilat lakleren schoenen lakksko lakierki چرمى بوټونه лакированные туфли topánky z lakovanej kože, lakovky lakasti čevlji cipele od lakovane kože lac...
12. A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period
13. A product in respect of which a patent (sense 1.2.2) has been obtained.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
14. A grant made by a government that confers upon the creator of an invention the sole right to make, use, and sell that invention for a set period of time.
15. Ellipsis of patent leather (“a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for accessories and shoes”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
16. A grant of publicly owned land, particularly to a homesteader.
17. A licence or (formal) permission to do something.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
18. An exclusive right or title.
19. A characteristic or quality that one possesses; in particular (hyperbolic) as if exclusively; a monopoly.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
20. Protected or conferred by a patent or letters patent: a patent right.
21. The combination of seven bets on three selections, offering a return even if only one bet comes in.
    countable, uncountable
22. (also pāt′nt) Obvious; plain: a patent injustice. See Synonyms at apparent.
    also
23. (pāt′nt) Biology a. Not blocked; open: a patent duct.
    Biology
24. Relating to or being a nonprescription drug or other medical preparation that is protected by a trademark.

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Examples

“[…] Squib proved clearly by his patent that the house and office did now belong to him.”

“Philip of Spain had offered a reward of 25,000 crowns, a patent of nobility, and immunity for all past crimes, to the assassinator of the Prince of Orange.”

“The patent situation, too, played a part in this, as often a firm sought to produce something which would achieve a given result, and yet not infringe a patent held by another; or a railway engineer would think of a device of his own that would free him of obligation to some manufacturer.”

“The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.”

“If you be ſo fond ouer her iniquity, giue her patent to offend, for if it touches not you, it comes neere no body.”

“So will I growe, ſo liue, ſo die my Lord, / Ere I will yield my virgin Patent, vp / Vnto his Lordſhippe, whoſe vnwiſhed yoake / My ſoule conſents not to giue ſouerainty.”

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