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cre⋅ate
[kree-eyt] 
verb, -at⋅ed, -at⋅ing, adjective –verb (used with object)
| 1. | to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes. |
| 2. | to evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention. |
| 3. | Theater. to perform (a role) for the first time or in the first production of a play. |
| 4. | to make by investing with new rank or by designating; constitute; appoint: to create a peer. |
| 5. | to be the cause or occasion of; give rise to: The announcement created confusion. |
| 6. | to cause to happen; bring about; arrange, as by intention or design: to create a revolution; to create an opportunity to ask for a raise. |
–verb (used without object)
| 7. | to do something creative or constructive. |
| 8. | British. to make a fuss. |
–adjective
| 9. | Archaic. created. |
Origin:
1350–1400; ME creat (ptp.) < L creātus, equiv. to creā- (s. of creāre to make) + -tus ptp. suffix
1350–1400; ME creat (ptp.) < L creātus, equiv. to creā- (s. of creāre to make) + -tus ptp. suffix
Related forms:
cre⋅at⋅a⋅ble, adjective
Synonyms:
2. originate, invent.
2. originate, invent.
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| cre·ate (krē-āt') tr.v. cre·at·ed, cre·at·ing, cre·ates
Created. [Middle English createn, from Latin creāre, creāt-; see ker-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
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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.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.
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Language Translation for : Create
Spanish:
crear,
German:
(er-)schaffen,
Japanese:
創造する
create
c.1386, from L. creatus, pp. of creare "to make, produce," related to crescere "arise, grow" (see crescent). Creator for "Supreme Being" (c.1300) drove out native scieppend, from verb scieppan (see shape). Creative is from 1678, originally literal; of the arts, meaning "imaginative," from 1816, first attested in Wordsworth. Creative writing is from 1907. The native word for creation in the Biblical sense was O.E. frum-sceaft.Creationism as a name for the religious reaction to Darwin is from 1880.
"James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in Dublin was highly regarded in his day as a churchman and as a scholar. Of his many works, his treatise on chronology has proved the most durable. Based on an intricate correlation of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean histories and Holy writ, it was incorporated into an authorized version of the Bible printed in 1701, and thus came to be regarded with almost as much unquestioning reverence as the Bible itself. Having established the first day of creation as Sunday 23 October 4004 B.C. ... Ussher calculated the dates of other biblical events, concluding, for example, that Adam and Eve were driven from Paradise on Monday 10 November 4004 BC, and that the ark touched down on Mt Ararat on 5 May 1491 BC `on a Wednesday'." [Craig, G.Y., and E.J. Jones, "A Geological Miscellany," Princeton University Press, 1982.]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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