create
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːˈeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
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Etymology: From Middle English createn, from Latin creātus, the perfect passive participle of creō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). In this sense, mostly displaced Old English wyrċan (whence Modern English work) and ġesċieppan (whence Modern English shape).
Senses: examples: text: You can create the color orange by mixing yellow and red.
text: … God created man a moral agent.
ref: 1829, Thomas Tully Crybbace, An Essay on Moral Freedom
text: Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
ref: 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 171:
text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
text: When an ultrasonic beam is fired at the microcannons, the emulsion evaporates, expanding rapidly into gas. This creates enough force to push the nanobullets out at velocities reaching several metres per second.
ref: 2016 February 1, Tom Whipple, “Microcannon firing nanobullets: the future of targeted medicine”, in The Times:
synonyms: generate
make
antonyms: annihilate
extinguish
glosses: To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
examples: text: In the beginning God created yᵉ heauen and the earth. And the earth was without forme & voyde, and darkenes was vpon the depe, & the Spirit of God moued vpon the waters.
ref: 1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, Genesis I:1, folio 1, recto:
synonyms: generate
make
antonyms: annihilate
extinguish
glosses: To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
raw_tags: of a god
examples: text: Couturiers create exclusive garments for an affluent clientele.
text: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
synonyms: generate
make
invent
antonyms: annihilate
extinguish
imitate
glosses: To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
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.
examples: text: crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties
text: A sudden chemical spill on the highway created a chain‐collision which created a record traffic jam.
text: The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
examples: text: Henry VIII created him a Duke. Last month, the queen created two barons.
text: Under the concordate with Belgium, at least one Belgian clergyman must be created cardinal; by tradition, every archbishop of Mechelen is thus created a cardinal.
text: Create him Prorex of Affrica,
That he may win the Babilonians hearts,
Which will reuolt from Perſean gouernment,
Unleſſe they haue a wiſer King than you.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
glosses: To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
examples: text: Children usually enjoy creating, never mind if it is of any use!
glosses: To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.
glosses: In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
examples: text: 'What's the time?' she said. 'I must fly. Miss'll start creating.'
ref: 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren:
glosses: To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
Synonyms: word: bring forth
word: cause
word: contrive
word: create
word: engender
word: generate
word: gin up
word: innate
word: form
word: forthbring
word: make
word: produce
word: spawn
Hypernyms: word: exist
Hyponyms: word: assemble
word: beget
word: birth
word: bring about
word: build
word: coin
word: constitute
word: establish
word: evoke
word: instantiate
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: invent
word: put together
word: produce sensation
word: set up
Derived terms: cocreate
concreate
creatard
create daylight between oneself and someone
creotard
discreate
increate
miscreate
newcreate
noncreating
self-create
transcreate
uncreate
Related terms: word: creable
word: creatability
word: creatable
word: creation
word: creational
word: creationally
word: creationarily
word: creationary
word: creationism
word: creationist
word: creationistic
word: creationistically
word: creative
word: creatively
word: creativeness
word: creativity
word: creator
word: creatorship
word: creatress
word: creatrix
word: creatural
word: creature
word: creatureliness
word: creaturely
word: procreate
word: recreate
word: re-create
word: recreation
word: come into being