United Definition–adjective | 1. | made into or caused to act as a single entity: a united front. | | 2. | formed or produced by the uniting of things or persons: a united effort. | |
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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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Office Definition–noun | 1. | a room, set of rooms, or building where the business of a commercial or industrial organization or of a professional person is conducted: the main office of an insurance company; a doctor's office. | | 2. | a room assigned to a specific person or a group of persons in a commercial or industrial organization: Her office is next to mine. | | 3. | a business or professional organization: He went to work in an architect's office. | | 4. | the staff or designated part of a staff at a commercial or industrial organization: The whole office was at his wedding. | | 5. | a position of duty, trust, or authority, esp. in the government, a corporation, a society, or the like: She was elected twice to the office of president. | | 6. | employment or position as an official: to seek office. | | 7. | the duty, function, or part of a particular person or agency: to act in the office of adviser. | | 8. | (initial capital letter ) an operating agency or division of certain departments of the U.S. Government: Office of Community Services. | | 9. | (initial capital letter) British. a major administrative unit or department of the national government: the Foreign Office. | | 10. | Slang. hint, signal, or warning; high sign. | | 11. | Often, offices. something, whether good or bad, done or said for or to another: He obtained a position through the offices of a friend. | | 12. | Ecclesiastical. | a. | the prescribed order or form for a service of the church or for devotional use. | | b. | the services so prescribed. | | c. | Also called divine office.
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the prayers, readings from Scripture, and psalms that must be recited every day by all who are in major orders. | | d. | a ceremony or rite, esp. for the dead. | | | 13. | a service or task to be performed; assignment; chore: little domestic offices. | | 14. | offices, Chiefly British. | a. | the parts of a house, as the kitchen, pantry, or laundry, devoted mainly to household work. | | b. | the stables, barns, cowhouses, etc., of a farm. | | |
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