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CREATE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make or cause to be or to become

Example:

create a furor

Synonyms:

create; make

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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

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

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)

bring forth; produce (bring forth or yield)

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))

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

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

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)

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

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)

grind (created by grinding)

re-create (create anew)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

creature (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Create or manufacture a man-made product

Example:

The company has been making toys for two centuries

Synonyms:

create; make; produce

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Verb group:

create; make (create by artistic means)

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

put out (put out considerable effort)

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)

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)

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)

output (to create or manufacture a specific amount)

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)

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

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Create by artistic means

Example:

Auden made verses

Synonyms:

create; make

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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 4

Meaning:

Pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity

Example:

Don't disturb him--he is creating

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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:

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

creative (having the ability or power to create)

creative (promoting construction or creation)

creation (the human act of creating)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Bring into existence

Example:

He created a new movement in painting

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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 6

Meaning:

Invest with a new title, office, or rank

Example:

Create one a peer

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

Credits

 Context examples: 

She was shown into the breakfast-parlour, where all but Jane were assembled, and where her appearance created a great deal of surprise.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A doctor trained in radiology who specializes in creating and interpreting pictures of the nervous system.

(Neuroradiologist, NCI Dictionary)

Dopamine is involved in movement and mood and is derived from tyrosine through newition of a hydroxyl group and decarboxylation. newitional reactions create norepinephrine and epinephrine from dopamine.

(Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A program created to address roadblocks to research and to transform the way biomedical research is conducted by overcoming specific hurdles or filling defined knowledge gaps.

(NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, NCI Thesaurus)

It was an idealized Ruth he had loved, an ethereal creature of his own creating, the bright and luminous spirit of his love-poems.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This great prince received me at my landing with all possible encomiums, and created me a nardac upon the spot, which is the highest title of honour among them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The National Action Plan on Breast Cancer (NAPBC) is a public-private partnership created to eliminate the epidemic of breast cancer.

(National Action Plan on Breast Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

The NCI Thesaurus, which is a biomedical thesaurus created specifically to meet the needs of the NCI, is produced by the NCI EVS project.

(NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services, NCI Thesaurus)

The RNA are then used to create new proteins in the synapses, which are essential for keeping the synapses working properly, especially during memory formation and learning.

(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)

They used somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same method that was used to create Dolly the sheep in 1996.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)