create
to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
to evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention.
Theater. to perform (a role) for the first time or in the first production of a play.
to make by investing with new rank or by designating; constitute; appoint: to create a peer.
to be the cause or occasion of; give rise to: The announcement created confusion.
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.
to do something creative or constructive.
British. to make a fuss.
Archaic. created.
Origin of create
1Other words for create
Other words from create
- cre·at·a·ble, adjective
- in·ter·cre·ate, verb (used with object), in·ter·cre·at·ed, in·ter·cre·at·ing.
- self-cre·at·ing, adjective
- un·cre·at·a·ble, adjective
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How to use create in a sentence
Somehow, the brevity of the message creates an inverse potential for misunderstanding.
At the highest navigable point of the Congo River, thick jungle creates an impenetrable wall of green around a large island.
And ultimately this creates steadily eroding trust among voters for not just politics but the institutions of government.
That creates an obvious statistical issue: The results of a survey of two campuses cannot be extrapolated for the entire country.
Imagining novels as biological specimens creates a crazed and mythic zoology of hybrids, beasts, mutants, and aberrations.
Such mutual distrust necessarily creates or accompanies a lack of moral courage.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThe act, however, is a progressive piece of legislation and creates new conditions as the result of its own operation.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsLove creates in a wife a new woman; the woman of the day before no longer exists on the morrow.
Juana | Honore de BalzacThe invader who reduces a nation to anarchy, and then suffers from the disorder he creates, always calls his opponents brigands.
A reader creates nothing new; 77 all he does is to rearrange in his own mind the images already familiar.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
British Dictionary definitions for create
/ (kriːˈeɪt) /
(tr) to cause to come into existence
(tr) to invest with a new honour, office, or title; appoint
(tr) to be the cause of: these circumstances created the revolution
(tr) to act (a role) in the first production of a play
(intr) to be engaged in creative work
(intr) British slang to make a fuss or uproar
Origin of create
1Derived forms of create
- creatable, adjective
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