patent

patent is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
2. adjective. Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
3. adjective. Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.
4. adjective. Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
5. adjective. A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.
6. adjective. A writing securing to an invention.
7. adjective. A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
8. adjective. The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.
9. transitive verb. To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
10. noun. a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
11. noun. an official document granting a right or privilege
12. verb. make open to sight or notice

    "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him"

13. verb. obtain a patent for

    "Should I patent this invention?"

14. verb. grant rights to; grant a patent for
15. adjective. 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"

    Synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, plain, unmistakable

16. adjective. (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage

    "patent ductus arteriosus"

Synonyms

apparent, evident, manifest, plain, unmistakable

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in patent:

patten, tapnet

Common word forms

patents, patented, patenter, patently, patenting, patentable, patentness

Words from these letters

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