CREATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does create mean? 

• CREATE (verb)
  The verb CREATE has 6 senses:

1. make or cause to be or to become

2. bring into existence

3. pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity

4. invest with a new title, office, or rank

5. create by artistic means

6. create or manufacture a man-made product

  Familiarity information: CREATE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREATE (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make or cause to be or to become

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

create; make

Context example:

create a furor

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "create"):

bring forth; produce (bring forth or yield)

build; establish (build or establish something abstract)

assemble; piece; put together; set up; tack; tack together (create by putting components or members together)

style (make consistent with a certain fashion or style)

strike (produce by ignition or a blow)

copy; re-create (make a replica of)

create verbally (create with or from words)

compose; write (write music)

choreograph (compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music)

direct (guide the actors in (plays and films))

film (record in film)

film-make (make films; be a film maker)

recreate (create anew)

offset (create an offset in)

scrape (make by scraping)

multiply; procreate; reproduce (have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant)

bring about; give rise; produce (cause to happen, occur or exist)

press (create by pressing)

prepare (to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery)

cut (form or shape by cutting or incising)

cut (form by probing, penetrating, or digging)

raise (create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise)

beat (make by pounding or trampling)

chop (form or shape by chopping)

manufacture (create or produce in a mechanical way)

blast; shell (create by using explosives)

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))

incorporate (form a corporation)

form; organise; organize (create (as an entity))

create from raw material; create from raw stuff (make from scratch)

build; construct; make (make by combining materials and parts)

beget; bring forth; engender; father; generate; get; mother; sire (make (offspring) by reproduction)

regenerate (form or produce anew)

clear (make a way or path by removing objects)

distil; distill; extract (extract by the process of distillation)

derive; educe (develop or evolve from a latent or potential state)

froth; spume; suds (make froth or foam and become bubbly)

establish; lay down; make (institute, enact, or establish)

puncture (make by piercing)

twine (make by twisting together or intertwining)

cleave (make by cutting into)

track (make tracks upon)

bring; institute (advance or set forth in court)

short; short-circuit (create a short circuit in)

grind (created by grinding)

re-create (create anew)

bear; turn out (bring forth)

put on; turn in (carry out (performances))

establish; give (bring about)

cause; do; make (give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally)

actualise; actualize; realise; realize; substantiate (make real or concrete; give reality or substance to)

create; make (create by artistic means)

create by mental act; create mentally (create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands)

call up; summon (cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively)

bring; make for; play; work; wreak (cause to happen or to occur as a consequence)

give; yield (cause to happen or be responsible for)

initiate; originate; start (bring into being)

bring forth; generate (bring into existence)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

creature (a human being; 'wight' is an archaic term)

creature (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bring into existence

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

He created a new movement in painting

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "create"):

reinvent (bring back into existence)

develop (make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation)

carve out (establish or create through painstaking effort)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

Creation ((theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence)

creation (the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new)

creation (the human act of creating)

creation (an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone)

creation (the event that occurred at the beginning of something)

creative (promoting construction or creation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

Don't disturb him--he is creating

Hypernyms (to "create" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "create"):

draw (engage in drawing)

paint (make a painting)

build (be engaged in building)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

creative (promoting construction or creation)

creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)

creative (having the ability or power to create)

creation (the human act of creating)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Invest with a new title, office, or rank

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

Create one a peer

Hypernyms (to "create" is one way to...):

appoint; charge (assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Create by artistic means

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

create; make

Context example:

Auden made verses

Hypernyms (to "create" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Verb group:

create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "create"):

do; make (create or design, often in a certain way)

design (create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner)

design (create designs)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue create the movie

Derivation:

creation (the event that occurred at the beginning of something)

creative (promoting construction or creation)

creative (having the ability or power to create)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Create or manufacture a man-made product

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

create; make; produce

Context example:

The company has been making toys for two centuries

Verb group:

create; make (create by artistic means)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "create"):

laminate (create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material)

bootleg (produce or distribute illegally)

generate (produce (energy))

generate; give; render; return; yield (give or supply)

extrude; squeeze out (form or shape by forcing through an opening)

smelt (extract (metals) by heating)

reproduce (make a copy or equivalent of)

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)

output (to create or manufacture a specific amount)

print; publish (put into print)

confect (make or construct)

proof (make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset)

burn; cut (create by duplicating data)

elaborate (produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product)

breed (cause to procreate (animals))

make over; redo; refashion; remake (make new)

prefabricate (produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally)

underproduce (produce below capacity or demand)

pulsate; pulse (produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses)

clap together; clap up; slap together (make hastily and carelessly)

custom-make; customise; customize; tailor-make (make to specifications)

dummy; dummy up (make a dummy of)

turn out (produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery)

machine (make by machinery)

churn out (produce something at a fast rate)

overproduce (produce in excess)

put out (put out considerable effort)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue create the movie

Derivation:

creation (the human act of creating)

creation (an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone)

 Context examples 

Eclipses are very strong cosmic events that are bent on creating radical change, and the one in December was unusually sweet as sugar.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

General terms for methods to create, assemble, or otherwise form nanoscale structures.

(Nanofabrication, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Based on an understanding of chemical, biological and physical phenomena at the nanoscale level, processes are employed to create new nanoparticle technologies.

(Nanoparticle Application, NCI Thesaurus)

R&D that applies the principles of nanoscale science and engineering to create novel, or to improve existing, devices and systems.

(Nanoscale Devices and Systems, NCI Thesaurus)

Gary's successful touchdown on the Teflon — and on other perches of varying materials — is teaching scientists how they might create machines that land like a bird.

(Researchers study birds to improve how robots land, National Science Foundation)

On Earth, auroras are created when charged particles from the solar wind enter our planet's magnetosphere, a region where Earth's magnetic field accelerates and sends them toward the poles.

(Powerful Auroras Found at Brown Dwarf, NASA)

A clinico-pathological entity reflecting the multiple polyps throughout the gastrointestinal tract created as a result of involvement by a non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

(Multifocal Lymphomatous Polyposis, NCI Thesaurus)

Dr Guo said while it was well-known the overuse and misuse of antibiotics could create 'superbugs', researchers were unaware that other chemicals could also induce antibiotic resistance until now.

(Toothpaste and Hand Wash Are Causing Antibiotic Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The group next used 3-D printing to create a device that could capture and remove melittin from a solution.

(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)

Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that makes up the bulk of the universe's mass and creates the scaffolding upon which galaxies are built.

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)