- make or cause to be or to become
"make a mess in one''s office"
"create a furor"

- create or manufacture a man-made product
"We produce more cars than we can sell"
"The company has been making toys for two centuries"

- create by artistic means
"create a poem"
"Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"
"Picasso created Cubism"
"Auden made verses"

- pursue a creative activity

- be engaged in a creative activity
"Don''t disturb him--he is creating"

- bring into existence
"The company was created 25 years ago"
"He created a new movement in painting"

- invest with a new title, office, or rank
"Create one a peer"

1. Created; composed; begotten. [Obs.]

"Hearts create of duty and zeal. Shak." --

1. To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.

"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1." --

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.

"Your eye in Scotland Would create soldiers. Shak." --

"Create in me a clean heart. Ps. li. 10." --

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.