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English Dictionary: create by the DICT Development Group
3 results for create
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
create
v
  1. make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"
    Synonym(s): make, create
  2. bring into existence; "The company was created 25 years ago"; "He created a new movement in painting"
  3. pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity; "Don't disturb him--he is creating"
  4. invest with a new title, office, or rank; "Create one a peer"
  5. create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"
    Synonym(s): create, make
  6. create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries"
    Synonym(s): produce, make, create
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Create \Cre*ate"\ (kr[esl]*[amac]t"), a.[L. creatus, p. p. of
      creare to create; akin to Gr. krai`nein to accomplish, Skr.
      k[rsdot] to make, and to E. ending -cracy in aristocracy,
      also to crescent, cereal.]
      Created; composed; begotten. [Obs.]
  
               Hearts create of duty and zeal.               --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Create \Cre*ate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Created}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Creating}.]
      1. To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to
            exist.
  
                     In the beginning, God created the heaven and the
                     earth.                                                --Gen. i. 1.
  
      2. To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation;
            to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or
            fashion; to renew.
  
                     Your eye in Scotland Would create soldiers. --Shak.
  
                     Create in me a clean heart.               --Ps. li. 10.
  
      3. To invest with a new form, office, or character; to
            constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.
            [bd]I create you companions to our person.[b8] --Shak.
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