CREATE

make, create

(verb) make or cause to be or to become; “make a mess in one’s office”; “create a furor”

produce, make, create

(verb) create or manufacture a man-made product; “We produce more cars than we can sell”; “The company has been making toys for two centuries”

create

(verb) pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity; “Don’t disturb him--he is creating”

create

(verb) bring into existence; “The company was created 25 years ago”; “He created a new movement in painting”

create

(verb) invest with a new title, office, or rank; “Create one a peer”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

create (third-person singular simple present creates, present participle creating, simple past and past participle created)

(transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)

Synonym: generate

Antonyms: annihilate, extinguish

(especially, of a, god) To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.

To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.

Synonym: invent

Antonym: imitate

(transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.

(transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.

(intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.

(transitive) In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.

(UK, intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.

Adjective

create (comparative more create, superlative most create)

(obsolete) Created, resulting from creation.

Anagrams

• & cetera, Cartee, cerate, ecarte, tracee, Ă©cartĂ©

Source: Wiktionary


Cre*ate" (kr-t"), a.Etym: [L. creatus, p. p. of creare to create; akin to Gr. k to make, and to E. ending -cracy in aristocracy, also to crescent, cereal.]

Definition: Created; composed; begotte. [Obs.] Hearts create of duty and zeal. Shak.

Cre*ate", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Created;p. pr. & vb. n. Creating.]

1. To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.

2. To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew. Your eye in Scotland Would create soldiers. Shak. Create in me a clean heart. Ps. li. 10.

3. To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer. "I create you companions to our person." Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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