Definition of "create"

create

/kɹiːˈeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present creates, present participle creating, simple past and past participle created
1. (transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
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  [...] God created man a moral agent.
  1829, Thomas Tully Crybbace, An Essay on Moral Freedom
  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.
  2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 171
  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.
  2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48
  1. (especially of a god) To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
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    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.
    1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, Genesis I:1, folio 1, recto
  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.
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    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.
    2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
2. (transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
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  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.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
3. (transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
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  Create him Prorex of Affrica,That he may win the Babilonians hearts,Which will reuolt from Perſean gouernment,Unleſſe they haue a wiſer King than you.
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, (please specify the page)
4. (intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.
5. (transitive) In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
6. (UK, intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
  Quotations
  'What's the time?' she said. 'I must fly. Miss'll start creating.'
  1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren
adjective
comparative more create, superlative most create
1. (obsolete) Created, resulting from creation.
  Quotations
  Hearts create of duty and zeal.
  1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii]
  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.]
  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: […] [J. Barfield] for Taylor and Hessey, […], page 10, lines 7–9

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