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create | generator |

As a verb create

is (lb).

As a noun generator is

generator.

create

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Verb

(creat)
  • To put into existence.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , 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).
  • Synonyms

    * (to put into existence) generate * invent

    Antonyms

    * (to put into existence) annihilate, extinguish * imitate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Hearts create of duty and zeal.

    Anagrams

    * English transitive verbs ----

    generator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
  • # (chemistry) An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
  • # (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
  • # (mathematics) An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the given relators.
  • # (geometry) One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
  • # (programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters will generate multiple output values on request.
  • A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
  • # Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
  • Antonyms

    * (one which generates) extinguisher