patent

Definitions

1. 1adjective

   Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.

2. 2adjective

   Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.

3. 3adjective

   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. 4adjective

   Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.

5. 5adjective

   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. 6adjective

   A writing securing to an invention.

7. 7adjective

   A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.

8. 8adjective

   The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.

9. 9transitive 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. 10noun

    a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention

11. 11noun

    an official document granting a right or privilege

12. 12verb

    make open to sight or notice

    "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him"

13. 13verb

    obtain a patent for

    "Should I patent this invention?"

14. 14verb

    grant rights to; grant a patent for

15. 15adjective

    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

    apparentevidentmanifestplainunmistakable
16. 16adjective

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

    "patent ductus arteriosus"