Create
[kriː'eɪt] or [krɪ'et]
Definition
(verb.) pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity; 'Don't disturb him--he is creating'.
(verb.) bring into existence; 'The company was created 25 years ago'; 'He created a new movement in painting'.
(verb.) invest with a new title, office, or rank; 'Create one a peer'.
(verb.) create by artistic means; 'create a poem'; 'Schoenberg created twelve-tone music'; 'Picasso created Cubism'; 'Auden made verses'.
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Definition
(a.) Created; composed; begotten.
(v. t.) To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Originate.[2]. Produce, cause, occasion, be the occasion of.[3]. Make, appoint, constitute.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Form, produce, make, compose, constitute, beget, engender, generate, fashion,originate, educe, invent, imagine, cause
ANT:Annihilate, destroy, demolish
Checker: Nicole
Definition
v.t. to bring into being or form out of nothing: to beget: to form: to invest with a new form office or character: to produce.—adj. Creāt′able.—n. Creā′tion the act of creating esp. the universe: that which is created the world the universe.—adj. Creā′tional.—ns. Creā′tionism the theory of special creation opp. to Evolutionism: the theory that God immediately creates a soul for every human being born—opp. to Traducianism; Creā′tionist.—adj. Creā′tive having power to create: that creates.—adv. Creā′tively.—ns. Creā′tiveness; Creā′tor he who creates: a maker:—fem. Creā′trix Creā′tress; Creā′torship.—adjs. Crea′tural Crea′turely pertaining to a creature or thing created.—ns. Creature (krē′tūr) whatever has been created animate or inanimate esp. every animated being an animal a man: a term of contempt or of endearment: a dependent instrument or puppet; Crea′tureship.—The Creator the Supreme Being God.—Creature comforts material comforts food &c.: liquor esp. whisky.
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Examples
- The affection, which he had been asking to be allowed to create, if he could, was already his! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Her pride and blameless ambition was to create smiles in all around her, and to shed repose on the fragile existence of her brother. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Wealthy men had to come together to create an enterprise; credit and plant, that is to say, Capital, were required. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then, I said, let us begin and create in idea a State; and yet the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention. Plato. The Republic.
- Has there been any inconsistency on his side to create alarm? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Special provision was also made for injecting streams of pulverized coal in such manner as to create the largely extended zone of combustion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With federal, state, and municipal authorities in existence, with courts, district attorneys, police all operating, they create another arm of prosecution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But why this should be a law of nature if each species has been independently created no man can explain. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The shots from our little gun dropped in upon the enemy and created great confusion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The study and application of these conditions created great advancements in gas engines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Nor was any new office created or any new official title invented for his benefit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Florentine militia he created was a complete failure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He could not conceive of anything being created from nothing. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- My Maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The attack was made and many shots fell within the fort, creating some consternation, as we now know. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The terror which the woman and boy had been creating in Harriet was then their own portion. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Finally, however, on the 12th of March, he did push down through the north-western end of South Carolina, creating some consternation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This is an attachment which a woman may well feel pride in creating. Jane Austen. Emma.
- There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness; but they confirm me in a resolution of not creating you a companion in vice. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The will never creates new sentiments. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It cannot promote health nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Idealism creates an abstraction and then shudders at a reality which does not answer to it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But then I suppose you will say that what he creates is untrue. Plato. The Republic.
- This is often caused by an unconscious nervous action produced by the impression the occurrence creates on the brain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If a pebble is thrown into a quiet pool, it creates ripples or waves which spread outward in all directions, but which soon die out, leaving the pool again placid and undisturbed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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