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
do in (something) or do (something) in
to ruin or destroy something
The boy quickly did in the new shoes that he had received for his birthday.