English verb: create | |||
1. | create (creation) make or cause to be or to become | ||
Samples | Make a mess in one's office. Create a furor. | ||
Synonyms | make | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | actualise, actualize, arouse, arouse, assemble, bear, beat, beget, blast, bring, bring, bring about, bring forth, bring forth, bring forth, bring up, build, build, call down, call forth, cause, chop, choreograph, clear, cleave, compose, conjure, conjure up, construct, copy, create, create by mental act, create from raw material, create from raw stuff, create mentally, create verbally, cut, cut, derive, direct, distil, distill, do, educe, elicit, engender, enkindle, establish, establish, establish, evoke, evoke, extract, father, film, film-make, fire, form, froth, generate, generate, get, give, give, give rise, grind, incorporate, initiate, institute, invoke, kindle, lay down, make, make, make, make, make for, manufacture, mother, multiply, offset, organise, organize, originate, piece, play, prepare, press, procreate, produce, produce, provoke, puncture, put forward, put on, put together, raise, raise, raise, re-create, re-create, realise, realize, recreate, regenerate, reproduce, scrape, set up, shell, short, short-circuit, sire, spume, start, stir, strike, style, substantiate, suds, tack, tack together, track, turn in, turn out, twine, work, wreak, write, yield | ||
2. | create (creation) bring into existence | ||
Samples | The company was created 25 years ago. He created a new movement in painting. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | carve out, develop, reinvent | ||
3. | create (creation) pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity | ||
Samples | Don't disturb him--he is creating. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | act, move | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | build, draw, paint | ||
4. | create (social) invest with a new title, office, or rank | ||
Samples | Create one a peer. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | appoint, charge | ||
5. | create (creation) create by artistic means | ||
Samples | Create a poem. Schoenberg created twelve-tone music. Picasso created Cubism. Auden made verses. | ||
Examples | Sam and Sue create the movie | ||
Synonyms | make | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | create, make | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | design, design, do, make | ||
Verb group | create, make, produce | ||
6. | create (creation) create or manufacture a man-made product | ||
Samples | We produce more cars than we can sell. The company has been making toys for two centuries. | ||
Examples | Sam and Sue create the movie | ||
Synonyms | make, produce | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | bootleg, breed, burn, churn out, clap together, clap up, confect, custom-make, customise, customize, cut, dummy, dummy up, elaborate, extrude, fudge together, generate, generate, give, laminate, machine, make over, output, overproduce, preassemble, prefabricate, prefabricate, print, proof, publish, pulsate, pulse, put out, redo, refashion, remake, render, reproduce, return, slap together, smelt, squeeze out, tailor-make, throw together, turn out, underproduce, yield | ||
Verb group | create, make | ||