different between create vs sculpt

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.'

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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

From French sculpter, from Latin sculp? (“to cut out, carve in stone”).

Pronunciation

Verb

sculpt (third-person singular simple present sculpts, present participle sculpting, simple past and past participle sculpted)

1. (transitive) To form by sculpture.

   They sculpted a statue out of clay.

2. (intransitive) To work as a sculptor.

   What do you do?

   I used to box, but now I sculpt.

Derived terms

• resculpt

Related terms

• sculptor
• sculpture

Translations

Noun

sculpt (plural sculpts)

1. (computer graphics) A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance.

Further reading

• sculpt at OneLook Dictionary Search