Hypertext Webster Gateway: "create"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Create \Cre*ate"\ (kr[-e]*[=a]t"), a.[L. creatus, p. p. of
creare to create; akin to Gr. krai`nein to accomplish, Skr.
k[.r] 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.
``I create you companions to our person.'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
create
v 1: make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's
office"; "create a furor" [syn: {make}]
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" [syn: {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" [syn: {produce}, {make}]
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