Tra từ patent - Từ điển WordNet v3.1

I - noun

1. a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention (Freq. 5)
• Syn:
patent of invention
• Hypernyms:
document, written document, papers
2. an official document granting a right or privilege
• Syn:
letters patent
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
• Hypernyms:
legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument

II - verb

1. obtain a patent for (Freq. 1)
- Should I patent this invention?
• Derivationally related forms:
patentee
• Hypernyms:
procure, secure
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. grant rights to;
grant a patent for
• Derivationally related forms:
patentee
• Hypernyms:
register
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. make open to sight or notice
- His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him
• Derivationally related forms:
patency
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something

III - adjective

1. (of a bodily tube or passageway) open;
affording free passage
- patent ductus arteriosus
• Similar to:
unobstructed
• Derivationally related forms:
patency
2. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
- the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields
- evident hostility
- manifest disapproval
- patent advantages
- made his meaning plain
- it is plain that he is no reactionary
- in plain view
• Syn:
apparent, evident, manifest, plain, unmistakable
• Similar to:
obvious
• Derivationally related forms:
plainness (for: plain), patency, evidence (for: evident), apparency (for: apparent), appear (for: apparent), apparentness (for: apparent)