create

• creäte (archaic)

From Middle English createn, borrowed from Latin creātus, the perfect passive participle of creō.

• IPA^(key): /kɹiːˈeɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

create (third-person singular simple present creates, present participle creating, simple past and past participle created)

1. (transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)

   You can create the color orange by mixing yellow and red.

   • 1829, Thomas Tully Crybbace, An Essay on Moral Freedom:

     [...] God created man a moral agent.

   • 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 171:

     Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.

   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

   1. (especially of a god) To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
      • 1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: Printed by Rouland Hall, OCLC 557472409, Genesis I:1, folio 1, recto:

        In the beginning God created ye heauen and the earth. And the earth was without forme & voyde, and darkenes was vpon the depe, & the Spirit of God moued vpon the waters.

   2. To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.

      Couturiers create exclusive garments for an affluent clientele.

      • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

        From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.

2. (transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.

   crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties

   A sudden chemical spill on the highway created a chain‐collision which created a record traffic jam.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.

3. (transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.

   Henry VIII created him a Duke.   Last month, the queen created two barons.

   Under the concordate with Belgium, at least one Belgian clergyman must be created cardinal; by tradition, every archbishop of Mechelen is thus created a cardinal.

4. (intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.

   Children usually enjoy creating, never mind if it is of any use!

5. (transitive) In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
6. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.

• (to put into existence): generate
• (to design, invest with a new form, shape): invent

• (to put into existence): annihilate, extinguish
• (to design, invest with a new form, shape): imitate

create (comparative more create, superlative most create)

1. (obsolete) Created, resulting from creation.
   • Shakespeare, Henry V, ii, 2:

     Hearts create of duty and zeal.

   • 1814, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, transl., The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I (Hell), London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, […], OCLC 559008226, lines 7–9, page 10:

     Before me things create were none, save things / Eternal, and eternal I endure. / All hope abandon ye who enter here. [Inscription on the gate of Hell.]

• create at OneLook Dictionary Search
• create in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• create in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• create on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• & cetera, Cartee, cerate, ecarte, tracee, écarté

create

1. second-person plural indicative present of creare
2. second-person plural imperative of creare

• cerate
• recate
• tacere

creāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of creō

creāte

1. vocative masculine singular of creātus

create

1. Alternative form of creat

create

1. Alternative form of creat