Dictionary Definition
create
Verb
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /kɹiːeɪt/
- Rhymes: -eɪt
Etymology
From creatus.Verb
- To make
- To manufacture
- To put into existence
- To be creative.
Derived terms
rel-top terms derived from createRelated terms
rel-top terms related to create- creatability
- creational
- creationary
- creationally
- creationarily
- creationism
- creationist
- creationistic
- creationistically
- creatively
- creativeness
- creativity
- creatorship
- creatural
- creaturely
- creatureliness
Translations
to make
- Arabic:
- Bulgarian: създавам, творя
- Catalan: crear
- Chinese: 创造 (chuàngzào)
- Danish: skabe
- Dutch: scheppen
- Estonian: looma, tekitama
- Finnish: luoda, tehdä
- French: créer
- Georgian: შექმნა (šek‘mna)
- German: erschaffen, entwerfen
- Italian: creare
- Japanese: 創造する (そうぞうする, sōzō suru)
- Korean: 창조하다 (changjohada)
- Latin: creo
- Portuguese: criar
- Russian: создавать (sozdavát’)
- Spanish: crear
- Swedish: skapa, tillverka, göra
- Thai: (sâang)
- Yiddish: באַשאַפֿן (bashafn)
to manufacture
to put into existence
Requests for translation
- ttbc Catalan: crear
- ttbc Danish: skabe, kreere
- ttbc Dutch: creëren, scheppen, maken
- ttbc Esperanto: krei
- ttbc French: créer
- ttbc Greek: δημιουργώ (dimiurgo), πλάθω (platho)
- ttbc Hebrew: ליצור (litzor) (1); לייצר (leiatzer) (2); לברוא (livro') (3 - as in Creation by God)
- ttbc Indonesian: menciptakan, membuat, membikin
- ttbc Interlingua: crear
- ttbc Italian: creare
- ttbc Japanese:
- ttbc Old English: scieppan
- ttbc Portuguese: criar
- ttbc Romanian: a crea, a face
- ttbc Russian: создавать
- ttbc Sanskrit: krit
- ttbc Slovene: ustvariti
- ttbc Spanish: crear, generar
- ttbc Turkish: yaratmak
Italian
Verb
create- second-person plural indicative present of creare
- second-person plural imperative of creare
Extensive Definition
Create may refer to:
- Create (television network), an American public television network consisting of lifestyle and human interest programming from the libraries of PBS and American Public Television.
- Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program, a proposed improvement to the rail lines in the Chicago area.
- Create (SQL), a statement in SQL.
- Create (!), a free jazz band.
- iRobot Create, a hobbyist robot based on the iRobot Roomba platform.
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
assemble, author, bear, beget, block out, break ground,
break the ice, breed,
bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring to effect, bring
to pass, build, call into
being, carve, cast, cause, chisel, coin, compose, compound, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, cut, design, develop, devise, do, dream up, effect, effectuate, efform, elaborate, engender, erect, establish, evolve, experience imaginatively,
extrude, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, fashion, father, fictionalize, figure, fix, forge, form, formalize, formulate, found, frame, fudge together, generate, gestate, get up, give birth to,
give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, hatch, head, head up, hew, ideate, imagine, inaugurate, indite, initiate, innovate, institute, invent, knead, knock out, lay out,
lead, lead off, lead the
way, lick into shape, make,
make up, manufacture, mature, mint, model, mold, occasion, organize, originate, parent, patch together, piece
together, pioneer,
precede, prefabricate, prepare, procreate, produce, put together, put up,
raise, realize, rear, revolutionize, rough out,
roughcast, roughhew, run up, sculpt, sculpture, set, set afloat, set on foot, set
up, shape, sire, spawn, stamp, stand first, start, suppose, tailor, take the initiative, take
the lead, take the plunge, thermoform, think up, whomp
up, work, write