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CREATE BY MENTAL ACT

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands

Synonyms:

create by mental act; create mentally

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "create by mental act" is one way to...):

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

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

draw; make (make, formulate, or derive in the mind)

re-create (form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind)

give birth (create or produce an idea)

schematize (formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula)

contrive; devise; excogitate; forge; formulate; invent (come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort)

conceive; conceptualise; conceptualize; gestate (have the idea for)

concoct; dream up; hatch; think of; think up (devise or invent)

conceive of; envisage; ideate; imagine (form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case)

contrive; design; plan; project (make or work out a plan for; devise)

design; plan (make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form)

write (create code, write a computer program)

develop; evolve; germinate (work out)

program; programme (write a computer program)

construct (create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts)

construct (create by linking linguistic units)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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