different between recreation vs create

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French récréation, from Old French recreacion, from Latin recreatio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-kr?-??sh?n, IPA^(key): /??k?i?e???n/
• (US) enPR: r?-kr?-??sh?n, IPA^(key): /??k?i?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

recreation (countable and uncountable, plural recreations)

1. Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.

Synonyms

• leisure

Derived terms

Related terms

• recreate

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? creation

Alternative forms

• re-creation

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-kr?-??sh?n, IPA^(key): /?i?k?i?e???n/
• (US) enPR: r?-kr?-??sh?n, IPA^(key): /?i?k?i?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

recreation (plural recreations)

1. The process of recreating something.
2. The result of this process.

Usage notes

Hyphenated form re-creation avoids confusion with more common other sense.

Related terms

• recreate

Translations

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