RE-CREATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does re-create mean? 

• RE-CREATE (verb)
  The verb RE-CREATE has 3 senses:

1. create anew

2. make a replica of

3. form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind

  Familiarity information: RE-CREATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RE-CREATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they re-create    ... he / she / it re-creates   
Past simple: re-created   
Past participle: re-created   
-ing form: re-creating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Create anew

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale

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

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

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

regenerate (replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue)

play; spiel (replay (as a melody))

model; simulate (create a representation or model of)

reenact (enact or perform again)

act; play; represent (play a role or part)

perform (give a performance (of something))

present; represent; stage (perform (a play), especially on a stage)

recite; retell (render verbally)

interpret; represent (create an image or likeness of)

counterfeit; fake; forge (make a copy of with the intent to deceive)

fictionalise; fictionalize; retell (make into fiction)

regenerate; renew (reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

re-creation (the act of creating again)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a replica of

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

copy; re-create

Context example:

re-create a picture by Rembrandt

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

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

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

manifold (make multiple copies of)

imitate (make a reproduction or copy of)

trace (copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of)

back up (make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy)

hectograph (copy on a duplicator)

clone (make multiple identical copies of)

mimeo; mimeograph (print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph)

roneo (make copies on a Roneograph)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

re-creation (the act of creating again)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

His mind re-creates the entire world

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

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

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

reproduce (recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he re-create his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

re-creation (the act of creating again)

 Context examples 

The team used a combination of machine learning and a whole blood assay known as qPCR – a relatively simple tool – to identify genetic signatures that re-created the two subgroups from their previous study.

(New prognostic test could enable personalised treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, University of Cambridge)

Sunday he had intended to devote to studying for the high school examination, but the pearl-diving article lured him away, and he spent the day in the white-hot fever of re-creating the beauty and romance that burned in him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)