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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
acquire
English
Etymology
From Middle English acqueren, from Old French aquerre, from Latin acquir?; ad- + quaer? (“to seek for”). See quest.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??kwa???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??kwa??/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
- Hyphenation: ac?quire
Verb
acquire (third-person singular simple present acquires, present participle acquiring, simple past and past participle acquired)
- (transitive) To get.
- (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Consideration of our Latter End (sermon)
- No virtue is acquired in an instant, but by degrees, step by step.
- Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Consideration of our Latter End (sermon)
- (medicine) To contract.
- (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.
Synonyms
- (get, gain): attain, come by, earn, gain, obtain, procure, secure, win
Antonyms
- (get, gain): abandon, lose
Derived terms
- acquired taste
Related terms
- acquisition
- acquirement
- acquisitive
- acquisitory
See also
- obtain
- reach
Translations
Latin
Verb
acqu?re
- second-person singular present active imperative of acqu?r?
acquire From the web:
- what acquires carbon present in the atmosphere
- what acquired mean
- what acquired traits
- what acquires raw materials and resources
- what acquired immunity
- what acquired assets
- how is radiocarbon produced in the atmosphere
- what releases carbon into the atmosphere
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