INNOVATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does innovate mean? 

• INNOVATE (verb)
  The verb INNOVATE has 1 sense:

1. bring something new to an environment

  Familiarity information: INNOVATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INNOVATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they innovate    ... he / she / it innovates   
Past simple: innovated   
Past participle: innovated   
-ing form: innovating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bring something new to an environment

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

innovate; introduce

Context example:

A new word processor was introduced

Hypernyms (to "innovate" is one way to...):

initiate; pioneer (take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "innovate"):

phase in (introduce gradually)

open up; pioneer (open up an area or prepare a way)

debut (present for the first time to the public)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

innovation (the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new)

innovation (a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation)

innovative (being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before)

innovator (someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art)

 Context examples 

The fact that Uranus is your ruler is the reason you were born with the talent to innovate and rebel against tradition and the status quo when you feel it is necessary.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)