Meaning

10 senses
  1. Conspicuous; open; unconcealed.

  2. Conspicuous; open; unconcealed.

    Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.

  3. Open, unobstructed; specifically, especially of the ductus arteriosus or foramen ovale in the heart, having not closed as would have happened in normal development.

    She has a patent ductus arteriosus that will require surgery to close.

  4. Of an infection: in the phase when the organism causing it can be detected by clinical tests.

  5. Explicit and obvious.

    Those claims are patent nonsense.

    очеви́дныйočevídnyj, я́вныйjávnyj

  6. Of a branch, leaf, etc.: outspread; also, spreading at right angles to the axis.

  7. Protected by a legal patent.

    a patent right patent medicines

  8. (broadly, figuratively)To which someone has, or seems to have, a claim or an exclusive claim; also, inventive or particularly suited for.

  9. (archaic)Especially of a document conferring some privilege or right: open to public perusal or use.

    letters patent

  10. (archaic)Appointed or conferred by letters patent.

More definitions
  • (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage
  • clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

Examples

26 sentences
  1. Why don't you get it patented?

    ruПочему бы тебе не запатентовать это?

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  2. Tom filed a patent for his invention.

    ruТом подал патент на своё изобретение.

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  3. I filed a patent.

    Я зареєстрував патент.

    ruЯ зарегистрировал патент.

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  4. Where is the Tokyo patent office?

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  5. Transgender medicines are all off patent.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
explicit and obvious — see also explicit, obvious:

Origin

From Middle English patent, patente (“wide open; clear, unobstructed; unlimited; of a docu

From Middle English patent, patente (“wide open; clear, unobstructed; unlimited; of a document: available for public inspection”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman and Middle French patent (modern French patent), and directly from their etymon Latin patēns (“open; accessible, passable; evident, manifest; exposed, vulnerable”), the present active participle of pateō (“to be open; to be accessible, attainable; to be exposed, vulnerable; of frontiers or land: to extent, increase”), from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out; to fly”).

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