invent

To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.

To make up; fabricate.

To come upon; light upon; meet with; find.

To find out by original study or contrivance; create by a new use or combination of means; devise the form, construction, composition, method, or principle of.

In general, to produce by contrivance; fabricate; concoet; devise: as, to invent the plot of a story; to invent an excuse or a falsehood.

Synonyms 2 and 3. Discover, Invent. See discover and invention.

To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; — applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.

To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; — in a good or a bad sense

To design a new process or mechanism.