adj.
1.(of a bodily tube or passageway) open
2.clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses patent n.
1.a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
2.an official document granting a right or privilege patent v.
1.obtain a patent for
2.grant rights to
3.make open to sight or notice
Idiom of the Day
get what's coming to you
to receive the good or bad that you deserve
The criminal got what was coming to him when he was sent to jail for two years.