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    [Adjective]  | "pat*ent" | \ ˈpa-tᵊnt \


    1: open to public inspection —used chiefly in the phrase letters patent

    2: secured by letters patent or by a patent to the exclusive control and possession of a particular individual or party

    3: protected by a patent : made under a patent

    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin patent-, patens, from present participle of patēre to be open {mat|fathom|};

    [Noun]  | "pat*ent" | \ ˈpa-tᵊnt \


    1: an official document conferring a right or privilege : letters patent

    2: a writing securing for a term of years the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention

    3: the monopoly or right so granted

    Origin: 14th century ;

     See: {patent:1 };

    [Noun]  | "pat*ent flour" | \ ˈpa-tᵊn(t)- \


    1: a high-grade wheat flour that consists solely of endosperm

    Origin: 1886 ;

    [Noun]  | "pat*ent leather" | \ ˈpa-tᵊn(t)- \


    1: a leather with a hard smooth glossy surface

    Origin: 1816 ;

    [Noun]  | "patent medicine" 


    1: a nonprescription medicinal preparation that is typically protected by a trademark and whose contents are incompletely disclosed; also : any drug that is a proprietary

    Origin: 1770 ;

    [Noun]  | "patent office" 


    1: a government office for examining claims to patents and granting patents

    Origin: 1696 ;

    [Noun]  | "patent right" 


    1: a right granted by letters patent; especially : the exclusive right to an invention

    Origin: 1792 ;

    [Verb]  | "pat*ent" | \ ˈpa-tᵊnt \


    1: to obtain or grant a patent right to

    2: to grant a privilege, right, or license to by patent

    3: to obtain or secure by patent; especially : to secure by letters patent exclusive right to make, use, or sell

    Origin: 1675 ;

     See: {patent:1 };

    [Plural noun]  | "letters patent" 


    1: a writing (as from a sovereign) that confers on a designated person a grant in a form open for public inspection

    Origin: 14th century ;

    [Idiom]  | "take out a patent on" 


    1: to obtain a patent (an official document that gives a person or company the right to be the only one that makes or sells a product for a certain period of time) for

    [Noun]  | "patent" 


    1: as in copyright;



    2: as in grant, charter;


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    [Noun]  | "patent leathers" 


    [Noun]  | "patent medicines" 


    [Noun]  | "patent leather" 


    1: as in suede, nubuck;


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    [Noun]  | "patent medicine" 


    [Adjective]  | "patent" 


    1: not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation;


      * e.g., " ... unfortunately, the patent stupidity of the proposal did not deter the city council from putting it up for a vote "




    2: very noticeable especially for being incorrect or bad;


      * e.g., " ... a patent error that should have been caught before the book was published "



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     [ "patent" ]

    1: Obvious; plain; self-evident.

      * e.g.,  ... - George W. protects the freedom and liberty of America. 

     [ "patent" ]

    1: A legal that inventors have to come up with so other people don't steal or wordgank/wordtheir inventions.

      * e.g.,  ... "I didn't get a patent on my "Scat-a-pult" and someone put one on the market already. 

     [ "patent" ]

    1: To take an existing commodity and claim ownership over its production rights.

      * e.g.,  ... Let's patent rice and sell it to the asians. 

     [ "Patented" ]

    1: If you copy it I'll fucking kill you.

      * e.g.,  ... Person 1: This is my invention, its patented 

     [ "Patent" ]

    1: Pattern. Used when a person has a trick up his sleeves.

      * e.g.,  ... Oui ah chootee, you always patent more than badminton. 

     [ "patents" ]

    1: a trophy or award given to you that you earned by something you did

      * e.g.,  ... jackson earned 2 patents for his project on the telephone 

     [ "PATENT TROLL" ]

    1: A company-or divison of a company-whose sole reason for being is to sue other companies/individuals for patent infringment.Sometimes the troll is a large tech company with many patents.Other times it's a smaller company that purchases patents...then goes huntin'.Don't let this stop you from makin' shit.

      * e.g.,  ... UNBIASED ANCHORMAN:"Great news CRACKBERRY ADDICTS!The USPTO  

     [ "Holland Patent" ]

    1: A town in upstate New York that surrounding towns (Utica, New Hartford, Whitesboro, etc.) think is a hick town. In retaliation, we have parties where there is too much drinking to prove we're just as cool as you city folk.

      * e.g.,  ... "That guy is driving his tractor to Stewart's to fill it up with gas!" 

     [ "Holland Patent" ]

    1: Small ass town in Upstate New York neighboring Marcy, Stittville, and Barnaveld where shit goes down. Not many people live there, but there's enough to have it's own school district. There's like two main streets with houses on them, and that consists of the town's main population. In the summer, real niggas chill in the tiny ass park by the fire department and sometimes they walk up to Miller jump off the bridge into the scummy ass water below. In the winter, they snowmobile, and well that's about it considering the fact it's well, it's in the middle of scenic nowhere. All in all, the people from the area are pretty nice and chill people.

      * e.g.,  ... Guy 1: Hey, you going to Holland Patent? 

     [ "patent leather" ]

    1: a leather that has been given a high gloss finish.

      * e.g.,  ... "I went with them to the market and they bought some patent leather shoes and a very nice black pair of lace-ups with silver shoelaces,"(Briscoe 98). 

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