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creak
English
Alternative forms
- crik (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English creken, criken, metathesis of Old English cearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash, gnash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krak?n (“to crash, crack, creak”), related to Proto-Germanic *krak?n?, ultimately of imitative origin.
Compare also Old English cr?ccettan, cr?cettan (“to croak”), Albanian grykë (“throat”). More at crack.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kr?k, IPA(key): /k?i?k/
- Homophone: creek
- Rhymes: -i?k
Noun
creak (plural creaks)
- The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
Translations
Verb
creak (third-person singular simple present creaks, present participle creaking, simple past and past participle creaked)
- (intransitive) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
- 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert (author), Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter 10:
- Then when the four ropes were arranged the coffin was placed upon them. He watched it descend; it seemed descending for ever. At last a thud was heard; the ropes creaked as they were drawn up.
- 1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw:
- He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.
- 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert (author), Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter 10:
- (transitive) To produce a creaking sound with.
- a. 1941, Theodore Roethke, "On the Road to Woodlawn", in Open House (1941)
- I miss the polished brass, the powerful black horses,
- The drivers creaking the seats of the baroque hearses
- a. 1941, Theodore Roethke, "On the Road to Woodlawn", in Open House (1941)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To suffer from strain or old age.
- 2002, Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Survey (volume 39, page 205)
- Fascinating though this high-minded re-reading was, certain crucial joints of the play creaked a good deal under the strain.
- 2007, Francis Pryor, Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History (page 232)
- The whole basis of feudalism, especially in the more intensively farmed champion arable landscapes of the Midlands, was starting to creak.
- 2002, Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Survey (volume 39, page 205)
Derived terms
- creaky
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Acker, Crake, Kacer, acker, crake
creak From the web:
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- crack means
create
English
Alternative forms
- creäte (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English createn, from Latin cre?tus, the perfect passive participle of cre?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?i??e?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Verb
create (third-person singular simple present creates, present participle creating, simple past and past participle created)
- (transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
- 1829, Thomas Tully Crybbace, An Essay on Moral Freedom:
- [...] God created man a moral agent.
- Synonym: generate
- Antonyms: annihilate, extinguish
- (especially of a god) To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
- 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.
- Synonym: invent
- Antonym: imitate
- 1829, Thomas Tully Crybbace, An Essay on Moral Freedom:
- (transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
- crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties
- (transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
- (intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.
- (transitive) In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
- (Britain, intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
- 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren
- 'What's the time?' she said. 'I must fly. Miss'll start creating.'
- 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren
Conjugation
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
create (comparative more create, superlative most create)
- (obsolete) Created, resulting from creation.
Translations
Further reading
- create at OneLook Dictionary Search
- create in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- create in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- create on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- & cetera, Cartee, cerate, ecarte, tracee, écarté
Italian
Verb
create
- second-person plural indicative present of creare
- second-person plural imperative of creare
Anagrams
- cerate, recate, tacere
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kre?a?.te/, [k?e?ä?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kre?a.te/, [k?????t??]
Verb
cre?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of cre?
Participle
cre?te
- vocative masculine singular of cre?tus
Middle English
Adjective
create
- Alternative form of creat
Verb
create
- Alternative form of creat
create From the web:
- what creates wind
- what created the great lakes
- what creates earth's magnetic field
- what created the grand canyon
- what creates fog
- what created the big bang
- what created the universe
- what creates gravity
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