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Patent

noun

1.

A document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention. Synonym: patent of invention.

2.

An official document granting a right or privilege. Synonym: letters patent.

verb

(past & past part. patented; pres. part. patenting)

1.

Obtain a patent for.

2.

Grant rights to; grant a patent for.

3.

Make open to sight or notice.

adjective

1.

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

2.

Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment. Synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, plain, unmistakable. "Evident hostility" , "Manifest disapproval" , "Patent advantages" , "Made his meaning plain" , "It is plain that he is no reactionary" , "In plain view"

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... book and focussed his glasses on the tow. The track of the fire was patent to the world now, and we were unbending the sails from the yards ...

— The Brassbounder - A Tale of the Sea • David W. Bone

... remained perfectly grave, and it was impossible to tell whether he was joking. There was but the slightest yellow twinkle of spitefulness in the depths of his grey eyes. And he finished with a sarcastic allusion, the drift of which was as yet patent to him alone. 'Ah, well! if you let yourself be influenced by the fools who laugh, you'll have enough ...

— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola

... of course. Unfortunately, there were some very important things from my report among them such as buying up liquid chlorine and about the Bridgeport Projectile Company, as well as documents regarding the buying up of phenol and the acquisition of Wright's aeroplane patent. But things like that must occur. I send you Albert's reply for you to see how we protect ourselves. We composed the ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) • Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

... far gone in ruin, that once had housed a dozen friars. Breadfruit-, mango- and orange-trees grew in the tangled tall grass, and the garden where the priests had read their breviaries was a wilderness of tiger-lilies. Among them we found empty bottles of a "Medical Discovery," a patent medicine dispensed from Boston, favored in these islands where liquor ...

— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

... very clever young man. He gets his living by writing charms, and sells a good number for the cure of disease. People pour water on the ink or writing of the charm, and then drink the magic liquid. The remedy is doubtless as effectual as many patent medicines in Europe. As is well known, this superstition of drinking the Koran ...

— Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 • James Richardson

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