Verb

(creat)

To put into existence.

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, author= , volume=100, issue=2, page=171, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Well-connected Brains , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.

To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content",

To be creative, imaginative.

To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.

* , chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace.

To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or restored for the incumbent.

To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre?existent title (notably a church in Rome).

Verb

(compil)

To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.

Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.

(obsolete) To construct, build.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:

Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin [...].

(computing) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.

After I compile this program I'll run it and see if it works.

(computing) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.

There must be an error in my source code because it won't compile .

(obsolete) To contain or comprise.

* Spenser

Which these six books compile .

(obsolete) To write; to compose.