ALL meanings of patent
pat·ent
P p - noun patent the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years. 1
- noun patent an invention or process protected by this right. 1
- noun patent an official document conferring such a right; letters patent. 1
- noun patent the instrument by which the government of the United States conveys the legal fee-simple title to public land. 1
- noun patent patent leather. 1
- adjective patent protected by a patent; patented: a patent cooling device. 1
- adjective patent pertaining to, concerned with, or dealing with patents, especially on inventions: a patent attorney; patent law. 1
- adjective patent conferred by a patent, as a right or privilege. 1
- adjective patent holding a patent, as a person. 1
- adjective patent readily open to notice or observation; evident; obvious: a patent breach of good manners. 1
- adjective patent made of patent leather: patent shoes. 1
- adjective patent lying open; not enclosed or shut in: a patent field. 1
- adjective patent Chiefly Botany. expanded or spreading. 1
- adjective patent open, as a doorway or a passage. 1
- adjective patent Phonetics. open, in various degrees, to the passage of the breath stream. 1
- verb with object patent to take out a patent on; obtain the exclusive rights to (an invention, process, etc.) by a patent. 1
- verb with object patent to originate and establish as one's own. 1
- verb with object patent Metallurgy. to heat and quench (wire) so as to prepare for cold-drawing. 1
- verb with object patent to grant (public land) by a patent. 1
- noun patent legal right 1
- transitive verb patent obtain patent 1
- adjective patent relating to patents 1
- adjective patent of patent leather 1
- countable noun patent A patent is an official right to be the only person or company allowed to make or sell a new product for a certain period of time. 0
- verb patent If you patent something, you obtain a patent for it. 0
- adjective patent You use patent to describe something, especially something bad, in order to indicate in an emphatic way that you think its nature or existence is clear and obvious. 0
- noun patent a government grant to an inventor assuring him the sole right to make, use, and sell his invention for a limited period 0
- noun patent a document conveying such a grant 0
- noun patent an invention, privilege, etc, protected by a patent 0
- noun patent an official document granting a right 0
- noun patent any right granted by such a document 0
- noun patent a grant by the government of title to public lands 0
- noun patent the instrument by which such title is granted 0
- noun patent the land so granted 0
- noun patent a sign that one possesses a certain quality 0
- adjective patent open or available for inspection (esp in the phrases letters patent, patent writ) 0
- adjective patent obvious 0
- adjective patent concerning protection, appointment, etc, of or by a patent or patents 0
- abbreviation PATENT proprietary 0
- adjective patent (esp of a bodily passage or duct) being open or unobstructed 0
- adjective patent spreading out widely 0
- adjective patent (of plate glass) ground and polished on both sides 0
- verb patent to obtain a patent for 0
- verb patent (in the US) to grant (public land or mineral rights) by a patent 0
- verb patent to heat (a metal) above a transformation temperature and cool it at a rate that allows cold working 0
- adjective patent open to examination by the public 0
- adjective patent granted or appointed by letters patent 0
- adjective patent open to all; generally accessible or available 0
- adjective patent obvious; plain; evident 0
- adjective patent open or unobstructed 0