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Create   /kriˈeɪt/   Listen
Create

verb
(past & past part. created; pres. part. creating)
1.
Make or cause to be or to become.  Synonym: make.  "Create a furor"
2.
Bring into existence.  "He created a new movement in painting"
3.
Pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity.
4.
Invest with a new title, office, or rank.
5.
Create by artistic means.  Synonym: make.  "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music" , "Picasso created Cubism" , "Auden made verses"
6.
Create or manufacture a man-made product.  Synonyms: make, produce.  "The company has been making toys for two centuries"



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"Create" Quotes from Famous Books



... accompanying the "must" with a push of no very gentle nature. Paddy did move, for he could not help it; but as he turned away from the sight which was yielding him harmless enjoyment, to the forgetfulness of misery for the moment, and perhaps to create in him desires for better things, and give him greater energy to work and labour for them; he was rudely branded, with a mark of debasement, and I could see in the poor fellow's eye and gait, though labourer he was, pride and degradation ...
— Facts for the Kind-Hearted of England! - As to the Wretchedness of the Irish Peasantry, and the Means for their Regeneration • Jasper W. Rogers

... fineless" which garnish the universe—nay, they have multiplied them infinitely, and shed on them a deeper radiance. The more poetry there is, the more there must be. A good criticism on a great poem becomes a poem itself. It is the essence of poetry to increase and multiply—to create an echo and shadow of its own power, even as the voice of the cataract summons the spirits of the wilderness to return it in thunder. As truly say that storms can exhaust the sky, as that poems can exhaust the blue dome of poesy. We doubt, too, the dictum that the earliest poets ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various

... will then relax our rules a little in your case. Of course, you won't mention it to our other boys, as it might create dissatisfaction." ...
— The Young Explorer • Horatio Alger

... Thus the three brothers, with all their band of followers, were brought to hear the lord's discourse on the comparison of a fire sacrifice: and in the discourse he taught, "How the dark smoke of ignorance arises, whilst confused thoughts, like wood drilled into wood, create the fire. Lust, anger, delusion, these are as fire produced, and these inflame and burn all living things. Thus the fire of grief and sorrow, once enkindled, ceases not to burn, ever giving rise to birth and death; ...
— Sacred Books of the East • Various

... in the words of a great doctor—more men die on the field of battle from lack of women nurses than ever die from the bullet of the enemy. The time seems to have come for woman's place on the firing line. That womanhood which gives of life to create life now claims the right to go out on the field of danger to conserve and protect life; and in the embodiment of military training in public education that, too, may be part ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut


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