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RE-CREATE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

His mind re-creates the entire world

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Create anew

Example:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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"):

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)

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

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

re-creation (the act of creating again)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make a replica of

Example:

re-create a picture by Rembrandt

Synonyms:

copy; re-create

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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)

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