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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
create
    v 1: make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's
         office"; "create a furor" [syn: make, create]
    2: bring into existence; "The company was created 25 years ago";
       "He created a new movement in painting"
    3: pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative
       activity; "Don't disturb him--he is creating"
    4: invest with a new title, office, or rank; "Create one a peer"
    5: create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg
       created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden
       made verses" [syn: create, make]
    6: create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more
       cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for
       two centuries" [syn: produce, make, create]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Create \Cre*ate"\ (kr[-e]*[=a]t"), a. [L. creatus, p. p. of
   creare to create; akin to Gr. krai`nein to accomplish, Skr.
   k[.r] to make, and to E. ending -cracy in aristocracy, also
   to crescent, cereal.]
   Created; composed; begotten. [Obs.]
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         Hearts create of duty and zeal.          --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Create \Cre*ate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Created; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Creating.]
   1. To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to
      exist.
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            In the beginning, God created the heaven and the
            earth.                                --Gen. i. 1.
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   2. To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation;
      to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or
      fashion; to renew.
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            Your eye in Scotland
            Would create soldiers.                --Shak.
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            Create in me a clean heart.           --Ps. li. 10.
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   3. To invest with a new form, office, or character; to
      constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.
      "I create you companions to our person." --Shak.
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Thesaurus Results for create:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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