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▸ noun:  (law)
▸ noun:  An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.
▸ noun:  (specifically)
▸ noun:  (originally) A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  (US, historical) A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent.
▸ noun:  (by extension) A product in respect of which a patent (sense 1.2.2) has been obtained.
▸ noun:  (figuratively)
▸ noun:  A licence or (formal) permission to do something.
▸ noun:  A characteristic or quality that one possesses; in particular (hyperbolic) as if exclusively; a monopoly.
▸ noun:  (gambling) The combination of seven bets on three selections, offering a return even if only one bet comes in.
▸ verb:  (transitive, law)
▸ verb:  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.
▸ verb:  (US, historical) To obtain (over a piece of real property) a specific grant of ownership.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To be closely associated or identified with (something); to monopolize.
▸ adjective:  Conspicuous; open; unconcealed.
▸ adjective:  (baking) Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.
▸ adjective:  (medicine) Open, unobstructed; specifically, especially of the ductus arteriosus or foramen ovale in the heart, having not closed as would have happened in normal development.
▸ adjective:  (medicine, veterinary medicine) Of an infection: in the phase when the organism causing it can be detected by clinical tests.
▸ adjective:  Explicit and obvious.
▸ adjective:  (archaic)
▸ adjective:  Especially of a document conferring some privilege or right: open to public perusal or use.
▸ adjective:  Appointed or conferred by letters patent.
▸ adjective:  (botany) Of a branch, leaf, etc.: outspread; also, spreading at right angles to the axis.
▸ adjective:  (law) Protected by a legal patent.
▸ adjective:  (by extension, figuratively) To which someone has, or seems to have, a claim or an exclusive claim; also, inventive or particularly suited for.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Short for patent leather (“a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for accessories and shoes”). [Leather that has been given a high-gloss, shiny finish.]

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