different between create vs impregnate

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)

1. (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

   1. (especially of a god) To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
   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.

      Synonym: invent

      Antonym: imitate

2. (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
3. (transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.

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. (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.'

Conjugation

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

create (comparative more create, superlative most create)

1. (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

1. second-person plural indicative present of creare
2. 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

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cre?

Participle

cre?te

1. vocative masculine singular of cre?tus

Middle English

Adjective

create

1. Alternative form of creat

Verb

create

1. Alternative form of creat

English

Etymology

Earlier impregn, from Middle French imprégner, from Old French enpreignier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p???ne?t/

Verb

impregnate (third-person singular simple present impregnates, present participle impregnating, simple past and past participle impregnated)

1. (transitive) To cause to become pregnant.

   Synonyms: knock up, inseminate, cover (of animals)

2. (transitive) To fertilize.
3. (transitive) To saturate, or infuse.
4. (transitive) To fill pores or spaces with a substance.
   • 1937, Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard, The mystery of scent (page 121)

     It takes a little time for the personal fatty acids to impregnate new shoes or boots, but from the scent point of view leather is a sponge, and the personal scent is left.

5. (intransitive, dated) To become pregnant.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

Translations

See also

• conceive
• sire
• father

Anagrams

• permeating, rimegepant

Italian

Verb

impregnate

1. second-person plural present of impregnare
2. second-person plural imperative of impregnare
3. feminine plural of the past participle of impregnare

Anagrams

• pigmentare, pigmenterà, pigramente