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cre·ate
(krē-āt′)tr.v. cre·at·ed, cre·at·ing, cre·ates
1. To cause to exist; bring into being: created a new music school. See Synonyms at establish.
2. To give rise to; produce: That remark created a stir.
3. To produce through artistic or imaginative effort: create a poem; create a dramatic role.
4. To invest with an office or title; appoint: He was created a baron.
adj. Archaic
Created.
cre·at′a·ble adj.
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create
(kriːˈeɪt)vb
1. (tr) to cause to come into existence
2. (tr) to invest with a new honour, office, or title; appoint
3. (tr) to be the cause of: these circumstances created the revolution.
4. (Theatre) (tr) to act (a role) in the first production of a play
5. (intr) to be engaged in creative work
6. (intr) slang Brit to make a fuss or uproar
[C14 creat created, from Latin creātus, from creāre to produce, make]
creˈatable adj
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cre•ate
(kriˈeɪt)v. -at•ed, -at•ing,
adj. v.t.
1. to cause to come into being, as something unique.
2. to evolve from one's imagination, as a work of art or an invention.
3. to perform (a role) in the first production of a play or motion picture.
4. to make by investing with new rank; designate: to create a peer.
5. to arrange or bring about, as by intention or design: to create confusion.
v.i. 6. to do something creative.
adj. 7. Archaic. created.
[1350–1400; Middle English creat (past participle) < Latin creātus, past participle of creāre to make; akin to crescent]
cre•at′a•ble, adj.
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Past participle: created
Gerund: creating
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Verb | 1. | create - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" beget, father, sire, engender, mother, generate, bring forth, get - make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them" procreate, reproduce, multiply - have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant; "The Bible tells people to procreate" regenerate - form or produce anew; "regenerate hatred" clear - make a way or path by removing objects; "Clear a path through the dense forest" distil, distill, extract - extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound" puncture - make by piercing; "puncture a hole" twine - make by twisting together or intertwining; "twine a rope" cleave - make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock" track - make tracks upon short, short-circuit - create a short circuit in re-create - create anew; "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale" grind - created by grinding; "grind designs into the glass bowl" bring forth, generate - bring into existence; "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office"; "The computer generated this image"; "The earthquake generated a tsunami" make for, wreak, bring, work, play - cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area" bring up, call down, conjure, conjure up, invoke, call forth, put forward, arouse, evoke, stir, raise - summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" create by mental act, create mentally - create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands create, make - create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" actualise, actualize, realize, substantiate, realise - make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions" cause, do, make - give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" turn in, put on - carry out (performances); "They turned in a splendid effort"; "They turned in top jobs for the second straight game" bear, turn out - bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers" create from raw material, create from raw stuff - make from scratch build, construct, make - make by combining materials and parts; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer" assemble, put together, tack together, set up, piece, tack - create by putting components or members together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee" style - make consistent with a certain fashion or style; "Style my hair"; "style the dress" strike - produce by ignition or a blow; "strike fire from the flintstone"; "strike a match" create verbally - create with or from words choreograph - compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music; "Balanchine choreographed many pieces to Stravinsky's music" direct - guide the actors in (plays and films) |
2. | create - bring into existence; "The company was created 25 years ago"; "He created a new movement in painting" reinvent - bring back into existence; "The candidate reinvented the concept of national health care so that he would get elected" develop - make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation; "Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"; "They developed a new technique" carve out - establish or create through painstaking effort; "She carved out a reputation among her male colleagues" | |
3. | create - pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity; "Don't disturb him--he is creating" draw - engage in drawing; "He spent the day drawing in the garden" paint - make a painting; "he painted all day in the garden"; "He painted a painting of the garden" build - be engaged in building; "These architects build in interesting and new styles" | |
4. | create - invest with a new title, office, or rank; "Create one a peer" | |
5. | create - create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" do, make - create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest" produce, create, make - create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" design - create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner; "Chanel designed the famous suit" design - create designs; "Dupont designs for the house of Chanel" | |
6. | create - create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" breed - cause to procreate (animals); "She breeds dogs" prefabricate - produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally underproduce - produce below capacity or demand; "The East German factories were underproducing for many years" output - to create or manufacture a specific amount; "the computer is outputting the data from the job I'm running" pulse, pulsate - produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube" customise, customize, custom-make, tailor-make - make to specifications; "I had this desk custom-made for me" turn out - produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery; "This factory turns out saws" machine - make by machinery; "The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars" churn out - produce something at a fast rate; "He churns out papers, but they are all about the same topic" overproduce - produce in excess; "The country overproduces cars" elaborate - produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; "The bee elaborates honey" put out - put out considerable effort; "He put out the same for seven managers" laminate - create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material bootleg - produce or distribute illegally; "bootleg tapes of the diva's singing" generate - produce (energy); "We can't generate enough power for the entire city"; "The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more electricity" generate, yield, render, give, return - give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" create, make - create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" extrude, squeeze out - form or shape by forcing through an opening; "extrude steel" smelt - extract (metals) by heating reproduce - make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting" preassemble, prefabricate - to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings fudge together, throw together - produce shoddily, without much attention to detail print, publish - put into print; "The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce"; "These news should not be printed" confect - make or construct proof - make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset |
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create
verb
1. cause, lead to, occasion, bring about Criticism will only create feelings of failure.
2. make, form, produce, develop, design, generate, invent, coin, compose, devise, initiate, hatch, originate, formulate, give birth to, spawn, dream up (informal), concoct, beget, give life to, bring into being or existence He's creating a whole new language of painting
make destroy, demolish, annihilate
make destroy, demolish, annihilate
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
create
verb1. To cause to come into existence:
Idiom: give birth to.
2. To bring into existence formally:
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Translations
يُبْدِعُيَخْلِـقيَمنَحُ لَقَبـا
произвеждам
tvořitvyvolatjmenovat
skabeudnævnefrembringefremstillegøre til
آفریدنابداع کردنایجاد کردنبوجود آوردنخلق کردن
luodavalmistaa
stvoritiproizvesti
teremtalkotlétrehozrang: vmilyen rangra emel
gera aîskapaskapa, búa til
創造する
창조하다
creo
darytiKūrėjaskūrimaskūrybingaskūrybingumas
ieceltizraisītradīt
povzročitiustvariti
skapatillverkagöraproducera
สร้าง
tạo ra
create
[kriːˈeɪt]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
create
[kriˈeɪt] vt (= bring into being) [+ new thing] → créer
(= cause) [+ impression, fuss] → faire
(= arouse) [+ interest] → susciter
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
create
vt
(= bring into existence) → schaffen; new style, fashion also → kreieren; the world, man → erschaffen; draught, noise, fuss → verursachen; difficulties → machen; problems (person) → schaffen; (action, event) → verursachen, hervorbringen; impression → machen; (Comput) file → anlegen, erstellen; to create a sensation → eine Sensation sein; to create a fuss → Theater machen (inf)
vi (Brit inf) → Theater machen (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
create
[kriːˈeɪt]1. vt (gen) → creare; (impression, fuss, noise) → fare
to create a sensation → destare or fare scalpore
he was created a peer by the Queen → fu nominato pari dalla Regina
to create a sensation → destare or fare scalpore
he was created a peer by the Queen → fu nominato pari dalla Regina
2. vi (fam) → fare un sacco di storie
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
create
(kriˈeit) verb1. to cause to exist; to make. How was the earth created?; The circus created great excitement.
2. to give (a rank etc to). Sir John was created a knight in 1958.
creˈation noun1. the act of creating. the creation of the world.
2. something created. The dress designer is showing his latest creations.
creˈative (-tiv) adjective having or showing the power and imagination to create. a creative dress-designer.
creˈatively adverbcreˈativeness noun
ˌcreaˈtivity (kriːə-) noun
creˈator noun
a person who creates.
the Creator God.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
create
→ يُبْدِعُ tvořit skabe schaffen δημιουργώ crear luoda créer stvoriti creare 創造する 창조하다 maken lage stworzyć criar создавать skapa สร้าง yaratmak tạo ra 创造Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
create
vt. crear.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012