patent
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
Types & categories
- document hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
obtain a patent for
Should I patent this invention?
Types & categories
- secure hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 adjective
(of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage
patent ductus arteriosus
Related & opposite
- patency derivation
- unobstructed similar to
Sense 4 noun
an official document granting a right or privilege
Types & categories
- legal document hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 verb
grant rights to; grant a patent for
Types & categories
- register hypernym
Related & opposite
- patent derivation
- letters patent derivation
- patentee derivation
Sense 6 adjective
clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields
Related & opposite
- obviousness derivation
- apparentness derivation
- perspicuity derivation
- grounds derivation
- appear derivation
- seem derivation
- obvious similar to
Sense 7 verb
make open to sight or notice
His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- obviousness derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | patent |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | patent |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | document |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | patent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | patentee |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | secure |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | patency |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | unobstructed |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | patent |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | legal document |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | patent |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | letters patent |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | patentee |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | register |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | obviousness |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | apparentness |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | perspicuity |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | grounds |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | appear |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | seem |
| 6 | similar to | Related & opposite | obvious |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | obviousness |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |