Create

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English

Verb

Create (third-person singular simple present Creates, present participle creating, simple past and past participle created)

  1. (transitive) To put into existence.
    According to the Bible, God created the universe in six days.
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)</span> (transitive) To manufacture.
  3. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, &c.
    Couturiers create exclusive garments for an affluent clientele.
  4. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
    Children usually enjoy creating, never mind if it is of any use!
  5. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
    A sudden chemical spill on the highway created a chain‐collision which created a record traffic jam.
  6. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or restored for the incumbent.
    Henry VIII created him a Duke.
  7. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent title (notably a church in Rome).
    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.

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Adjective

Create (comparative more Create, superlative most Create)

  1. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

Adverbs for Create

obviously; artistically; unconsciously; independently; unexpectedly; painstakingly; artificially; fantastically; specially; fancifully; complicatedly; permanently; forcibly; harmoniously; uniquely; individually; abstractly; brilliantly; imaginatively; inferior-ly; gigantically; intellectually; sublimely; beneficently; ceaselessly; figuratively; literally.

Thesaurus

assemble, author, bear, beget, block out, break ground, break the ice, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring to effect, bring to pass, build, call into being, carve, cast, cause, chisel, coin, compose, compound, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, cut, design, develop, devise, do, dream up, effect, effectuate, efform, elaborate, engender, erect, establish, evolve, experience imaginatively, extrude, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, fashion, father, fictionalize, figure, fix, forge, form, formalize, formulate, found, frame, fudge together, generate, gestate, get up, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, hatch, head, head up, hew, ideate, imagine, inaugurate, indite, initiate, innovate, institute, invent, knead, knock out, lay out, lead, lead off, lead the way, lick into shape, make, make up, manufacture, mature, mint, model, mold, occasion, organize, originate, parent, patch together, piece together, pioneer, precede, prefabricate, prepare, procreate, produce, put together, put up, raise, realize, rear, revolutionize, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, run up, sculpt, sculpture, set, set afloat, set on foot, set up, shape, sire, spawn, stamp, stand first, start, suppose, tailor, take the initiative, take the lead, take the plunge, thermoform, think up, whomp up, work, write

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English createn, from Latin creatus, the past participle of creare.

Pronunciation

Translations

Verb

to put into existence
to design, invest with a new form, shape etc
to manufacture
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Adjective

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Italian

Verb

create

  1. second-person plural indicative present of creare
  2. second-person plural imperative of creare

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Latin

Verb

creāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of creō
    1. "create ye, make ye, produce ye"
    2. "beget ye, give ye birth to"
    3. "prepare ye, cause ye"
    4. "choose ye"

Participle

creāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of creātus
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