Word Meanings - PATENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. He had received instructions, both patent and secret. Motley. 2. Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent.

Additional info about word: PATENT

Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. He had received instructions, both patent and secret. Motley. 2. Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter. 3. 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. Madder . . . in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity. Mortimer. (more info) Note:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PATENT)

• Apparent
• Obvious
• plain
• conspicuous
• manifest
• appearing
• unmistakable
• clear
• probable
• seeming
• presumable
• likely
• patent
• ostensible
• visible
• evident
• indubitable
• notorious
• certain
• Plain
• self-evident
• explicit
• apparent
• open
• Outspread
• Expanded
• unfolded
• wrapped
• dispread
• outstretched

Related words: (words related to PATENT)

• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• PATENT
  Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. He had received instructions, both patent and secret. Motley. 2. Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• EVIDENTIARY
  Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential. When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, a mark of, some other fact. J. S. Mill.
• WRAPPAGE
  1. The act of wrapping. 2. That which wraps; envelope; covering.
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• CONSPICUOUS
  1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess
• APPEAR
  appear + parto come forth, to be visible; prob. from the same root as 1. To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. And God . . . said, Let . . . the dry land appear. Gen. i. 9. 2. To come before the public; as, a great
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• PLAINTIFF
  One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
• OUTSPREAD
  To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.
• PRESUMABLE
  Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.
• APPARENTLY
  1. Visibly. Hobbes. 2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak. 3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
• WRAPPER
  1. One who, or that which, wraps. 2. That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering. 3. Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• VISIBLE
  1. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper. Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Virtue made visible in
• UNFOLDMENT
  The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris.
• DISAPPEARING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
• MESEEMS
  It seems to me.
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• BERSEEM
  An Egyptian clover extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called
• INEXPLICIT
  Not explicit; not clearly stated; indefinite; vague.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.