CREATING FROM RAW MATERIALS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does creating from raw materials mean? 

• CREATING FROM RAW MATERIALS (noun)
  The noun CREATING FROM RAW MATERIALS has 1 sense:

1. the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it

  Familiarity information: CREATING FROM RAW MATERIALS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREATING FROM RAW MATERIALS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("creating from raw materials" is a kind of...):

creation; creative activity (the human act of creating)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creating from raw materials"):

baking (making bread or cake or pastry etc.)

casting; molding (the act of creating something by casting it in a mold)

recording; transcription (the act of making a record (especially an audio record))

building; construction (the act of constructing something)

fabrication; manufacture; manufacturing (the act of making something (a product) from raw materials)

concoction; confection (the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components)

lamination (bonding thin sheets together)