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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Create \Cre*ate"\ (kr[-e]*[=a]t"), adjective [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Create \Cre*ate"\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
137 Moby Thesaurus words for "create": 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
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