different between create vs propagate

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

Latin propagatus

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??p???e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??p???e?t/

Verb

propagate (third-person singular simple present propagates, present participle propagating, simple past and past participle propagated)

1. (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production
   • June 1879, William Keith Brooks, Popular Science Monthly Volume 15 - The Condition of Women from a Zoological Point of View I

     A marked bud-variation is of very rare occurrence, but in many cases the tendency of plants raised from seeds to differ from the parents is so great that choice varieties are propagated entirely by buds. It is almost hopeless to attempt to propagate a choice variety of grape or strawberry by seeds, as the individuals raised in this way seldom have the valuable qualities of their parents, and, although they may have new qualities of equal or greater value, the chances are of course greatly against this, since the possibility of undesirable variation is much greater than the chance of a desirable sport.

2. (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space

3. (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate
   • 1938, Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies Chapter 4

     There began to appear from the East, cropping up now here, now there, but in general along lines of advance towards the West, individuals or small communities who proposed and propagated a new and, as they called it, a purified form of religion.

   • 1913, J. B. Bury, A History of Freedom of Thought Chapter 3

     The works of the freethinker Averroes (twelfth century) which were based on Aristotle's philosophy, propagated a small wave of rationalism in Christian countries.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To multiply; to increase.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 1

     Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, / Which thou wilt propagate.

5. (transitive) To generate; to produce.
   • 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Conversation (published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)

     Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life.

6. (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants
   • 1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Chapter XXVIII

     As pigeons propagate so rapidly, I suppose that a thousand or fifteen hundred birds would have to be annually killed by mere chance.

7. (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

   It takes 24 hours for password changes to propagate throughout the system.

8. (transitive, computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

   The server propagates the password file at midnight each day.

Derived terms

• propagation
• propagator

Translations

References

• propagate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Ido

Verb

propagate

1. adverbial present passive participle of propagar

Italian

Verb

propagate

1. second-person plural present indicative of propagare
2. second-person plural imperative of propagare
3. feminine plural of propagato

Anagrams

• prepagato

Latin

Verb

pr?p?g?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of pr?p?g?