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inventure 

inventure (invention+adventure) Ð an adventure of mind, creative and engaging intellectual action.

This book is about the invention of radio, but it reads like a thriller, with one inventure piled upon another.

By cutting reason down to size and establishing its ÒproperÓ limits, Kant encouraged subsequent inventures, a never-ending quest to reach beyond the limits of rational thought.


inventure by Mikhail Epstein November 6, 2003
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inventure 

An invention that is the outcome of an adventurous pursuit
The sextant is one of the greatest navigational inventures.
inventure by muammar_a_tq September 25, 2015

Inventure 

Nanobots are an inventure that could go into the brain and cause zombies!
Inventure by Derrali December 6, 2013

Investurbate 

When you can't determine whether something is hot or not, so you decide to put it to the masturbatory test.
I'm 50% certain this HomeGoods ad is heating me up, but I'm not sure. Time to investurbate.

Yahoo Answers couldn't tell me whether or not I'm sexually attracted to Ansel Adams' photographs, so I had to do some ground-level investurbation. I'm not. We're good.
Investurbate by asthmaticdan October 20, 2015

Sad App Inventor 

In the MIT app inventor competition students used scratch coding with expensive code while loosing to a rando with

cheaper code. Causing these app inventors to be sad.
*Snapchat story* "Missing, drunk, awake at 4 A.M. (Sad App Inventor)."
Sad App Inventor by sadappinventor September 30, 2021

Archie the inventor 

Character from Balamory, a chum of PC Plum. Archie lives in a Pink Castle, is quite fat and wears a kilt.
He is always fiddling with some great new invention, which requires him to ask PC Plum for some assistance.
Certainly not intended for the CBBC audience
Hello PC Plum, would you mind holding this knob for me
Archie the inventor by dpme December 24, 2004

inventorious 

Jeff was feeling rather inventorious after purchasing an additional 200 million bonds.
inventorious by victorious December 10, 2008
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