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Create is a related term of occasion.


As verbs the difference between create and occasion

is that create is (lb) while occasion is to give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.

As a noun occasion is

a favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.

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).

    • Related terms

    (terms related to create) * creable * creatable * creatability * creation * creational * creationary * creationally * creationarily * creationism * creationist * creationistic * creationistically * creative * creatively * creativeness * creativity * creator * creatorship * creatress * creatrix * creatural * creature * creaturely * creatureliness * recreate * re-create * recreation

    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.

    External links

    * * * (wikipedia "create")

    Anagrams

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    occasion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
  • * Bible, Rom. vii. 11
    • Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me.
  • * Waller
    • I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring / Him to his death.
  • The time when something happens.
  • *, chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}
  • An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
  • Something which causes something else; a cause.
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 130:
    • it were too vile to say, and scarce to be beleeved, what we endured: but the occasion was our owne, for want of providence, industrie and government [...].
  • (obsolete) An occurrence or incident.
  • A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire. }}
  • Need; requirement, necessity.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • after we have served ourselves and our own occasions
  • * Burke
    • when my occasions took me into France
  • A special event or function.
  • A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
  • * Spenser
    • Whose manner was, all passengers to stay, / And entertain with her occasions sly.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.
    • it is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity

    Related terms

    * occasional

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