patent

(countable, uncountable)An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.

(countable, specifically, uncountable)A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods.

(countable, specifically, uncountable)A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.

(US, countable, historical, uncountable)A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent.

(broadly, countable, uncountable)(by extension) A product in respect of which a patent (sense 1.2.2) has been obtained.

(abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of patent leather (“a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for accessories and shoes”).

(countable, figuratively, uncountable)A licence or (formal) permission to do something.

(countable, figuratively, uncountable)A characteristic or quality that one possesses; in particular (hyperbolic) as if exclusively; a monopoly.

(countable, uncountable)(gambling) The combination of seven bets on three selections, offering a return even if only one bet comes in.

(transitive)To (successfully) register (a new invention) with a government agency to obtain the sole privilege of its manufacture, sale, and use for a specified period.

(US, historical, transitive)To obtain (over a piece of real property) a specific grant of ownership.

(figuratively, transitive)To be closely associated or identified with (something); to monopolize.

Conspicuous; open; unconcealed.

Đồng nghĩa: overt

Explicit and obvious.

Those claims are patent nonsense.

Đồng nghĩa: express, monosemous, unambiguous, clear, direct, explicit, express, monosemic, monosemous, patent, plain, specific, unambiguous, unequivocal, univocal, apparent, arrant, undoubted, glaring, bait, blatant, clear, clear as a bell, clear as day, clear cut, conspicuous, crystal clear, cut and dried, decided, elucidate, evident, eyely, intuitive, manifest, notable, noticeable, obvious, open-and-shut, ostensible, palpable, patent, plain, plain as a haystack, plain as a pikestaff, plain as day, plain as Dunstable highway, plain as porridge, plain as print, plain as Salisbury, plain as the nose on one's face, prima facie, res ipsa loquitur, splendent, straightforward, undissembled

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

letters patent

(archaic)Appointed or conferred by letters patent.

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

(law) Protected by a legal patent.

a patent right    patent medicines

Đồng nghĩa: patented

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