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. | 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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Leather Definition–noun | 1. | the skin of an animal, with the hair removed, prepared for use by tanning or a similar process designed to preserve it against decay and make it pliable or supple when dry. |
| 2. | an article made of this material. |
–adjective | 4. | pertaining to, made of, or resembling leather: leather processing; leather upholstery. |
| 5. | Slang. catering to or patronized by customers who typically wear leather clothing, often as a means of signaling interest in or preference for sadomasochistic sexual activity. |
–verb (used with object) | 6. | to cover or furnish with leather. |
| 7. | Informal. to beat with a leather strap. |
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Shoe Definition–noun | 1. | an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle. |
| 2. | an object or part resembling a shoe in form, position, or use. |
| 3. | a horseshoe or a similar plate for the hoof of some other animal. |
| 4. | a ferrule or the like, as of iron, for protecting the end of a staff, pole, etc. |
| 6. | the outer casing of a pneumatic automobile tire. |
| 7. | a drag or skid for a wheel of a vehicle. |
| 8. | a part having a larger area than the end of an object on which it fits, serving to disperse or apply its weight or thrust. |
| 9. | the sliding contact by which an electric car or locomotive takes its current from the third rail. |
| 10. | Civil Engineering. | a. | a member supporting one end of a truss or girder in a bridge. |
| b. | a hard and sharp foot of a pile or caisson for piercing underlying soil. |
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| 11. | a small molding, as a quarter round, closing the angle between a baseboard and a floor. |
| 12. | the outwardly curved portion at the base of a downspout. |
| 13. | a piece of iron or stone, sunk into the ground, against which the leaves of a gateway are shut. |
| 14. | a device on a camera that permits an accessory, as a flashgun, to be attached. |
| 15. | a band of iron on the bottom of the runner of a sleigh. |
| 17. | Furniture. | a. | a cuplike metal piece fo
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| b. | a fillet beneath an ornamental foot, as a pad or scroll foot. |
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| 18. | Printing. a box into which unusable type is thrown. |
| 19. | a chute conveying grain to be ground into flour. |
| 21. | Nautical. a thickness of planking covering the bottom of the keel of a wooden vessel to protect it against rubbing. |
–verb (used with object) | 22. | to provide or fit with a shoe or shoes. |
| 23. | to protect or arm at the point, edge, or face with a ferrule, metal plate, or the like. |
—Idioms| 24. | drop the other shoe, to complete an action or enterprise already begun. |
| 25. | fill someone's shoes, to take the place and assume the obligations of another person: She felt that no stepmother could ever hope to fill her late mother's shoes. |
| 26. | in someone's shoes, in a position or situation similar to that of another: I wouldn't like to be in his shoes. |
| 27. | the shoe is on the other foot, the circumstances are reversed; a change of places has occurred: Now that we are rich and they are poor the shoe is on the other foot. | <
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| 28. | where the shoe pinches, the true cause of the trouble or worry. |
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