CREATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Creation mean? 

• CREATION (noun)
  The noun CREATION has 6 senses:

1. the human act of creating

2. an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone

3. the event that occurred at the beginning of something

4. the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

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

6. everything that exists anywhere

  Familiarity information: CREATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The human act of creating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

creation; creative activity

Hypernyms ("creation" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creation"):

erotica; porn; porno; pornography; smut (creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire)

re-creation (the act of creating again)

creating from raw materials (the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it)

production (the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services)

creating by mental acts (the act of creating something by thinking)

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

creating by removal (the act of creating by removing something)

Derivation:

create (create or manufacture a man-made product)

create (pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity)

create (bring into existence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An artifact that has been brought into existence by someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("creation" is a kind of...):

artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creation"):

improvisation (a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation))

piece (an artistic or literary composition)

representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)

remake; remaking (creation that is created again or anew)

product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)

needlecraft; needlework (a creation created or assembled by needle and thread)

master; master copy; original (an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made)

innovation; invention (a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation)

composition (something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole)

classic (a creation of the highest excellence)

art; fine art (the products of human creativity; works of art collectively)

Derivation:

create (create or manufacture a man-made product)

create (bring into existence)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The event that occurred at the beginning of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

conception; creation

Context example:

from its creation the plan was doomed to failure

Hypernyms ("creation" is a kind of...):

beginning (the event consisting of the start of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creation"):

fecundation; fertilisation; fertilization; impregnation (creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant)

Derivation:

create (create by artistic means)

create (bring into existence)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

creation; foundation; founding; initiation; innovation; instauration; institution; introduction; origination

Context example:

the foundation of a new scientific society

Hypernyms ("creation" is a kind of...):

beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creation"):

authorship; paternity (the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing)

Derivation:

create (bring into existence)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)

Domain category:

divinity; theology (the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth)

Derivation:

create (bring into existence)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Everything that exists anywhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cosmos; creation; existence; macrocosm; universe; world

Context example:

the biggest tree in existence

Hypernyms ("creation" is a kind of...):

natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)

Meronyms (parts of "creation"):

celestial body; heavenly body (natural objects visible in the sky)

estraterrestrial body; extraterrestrial object (a natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere)

Meronyms (members of "creation"):

extragalactic nebula; galaxy ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creation"):

closed universe ((cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter)

natural order (the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws)

nature (the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.)

 Context examples 

The date the data creation started.

(Content Creation Date, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

The date on which data creation began.

(Content Creation Date, NCI Thesaurus)

The tracking of concept evolution over the lifetime of a vocabulary, includes concept creation, modification, merges, splits, and retirements.

(Concept History, NCI Thesaurus)

Examples of business processes include creation of a study or the registration of a patient into a study.

(Commit Operation, NCI Thesaurus)

The time the data creation started.

(Content Start Time, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

Surgical creation of an opening of the skull.

(Craniotomy, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgical creation of an opening in the intestine.

(Enterostomy, NCI Thesaurus)

The IL-4 produced by Th2 cells kills dendritic cell precursors that contribute to Th2 cell creation.

(Dendritic Cell Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Surgical creation of an opening (stoma) for drainage of the urinary bladder.

(Cystostomy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The surgical creation of an opening between the colon and the surface of the body.

(Colostomy, NCI Thesaurus)