Patent Definition–noun | 1. | the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years. | | 2. | an invention or process protected by this right. | | 3. | an official document conferring such a right; letters patent. | | 4. | the instrument by which the government of the United States conveys the legal fee-simple title to public land. | –adjective patent (for 10, 12–15.) | 6. |
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protected by a patent; patented: a patent cooling device. | | 7. | pertaining to, concerned with, or dealing with patents, esp. on inventions: a patent attorney; patent law. | | 8. | conferred by a patent, as a right or privilege. | | 9. | holding a patent, as a person. | | 10. | readily open to notice or observation; evident; obvious: a patent breach of good manners. | | 11. | made of patent leather: patent shoes. | | 12. | lying open; not enclosed or shut in: a patent field. | | 13. | Chiefly Botany. expanded or spreading. | | 14. | open, as a doorway or a passage. | | 15. | Phonetics. open, in various degrees, to the passage of the breath stream. | –verb (used with object) | 16. | to take out a patent on; obtain the exclusive rights to (an invention, process, etc.) by a patent. | | 17. | to originate and establish as one's own. | | 18. | Metallurgy. to heat and quench (wire) so as to prepare for cold-drawing. | | 19. | to grant (public land) by a patent. | |
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Lean Definition–verb (used without object) | 1. | to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window. | | 2. | to incline, as in a particular direction; slant: The post leans to the left. The building leaned sharply before renovation. | | 3. | to incline in feeling, opinion, action, etc.: to lean toward socialism. | | 4. | to rest against or on something for support: to lean against a wall. | | 5. | to depend or rely (usually fol. by on or upon): someone he could lean on in an emergency. | –verb (used with object) | 6. | to incline or bend: He leaned his head forward. | | 7. | to cause to lean or rest; prop: to lean a chair against the railing. | –noun | 8. | the act or state of leaning; inclination: The tower has a pronounced lean. | —Verb phrase | 9. | lean on, Informal. | a. | to exert influence or pressure on in order to gain cooperation, maintain discipline, or the like: The state is leaning on the company to clean up its industrial wastes. | | b. | to criticize, reprimand, or punish: I would have enjoyed school more if the teachers hadn't leaned on me so much. | | —Idiom | 10. | lean over backward(s). bend 1 (def. 20). | |
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