create

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cause to exist; bring into being. See Synonyms at found¹.
2. v. To give rise to; produce: That remark created a stir.
3. v. To invest with an office or title; appoint.
4. v. To produce through artistic or imaginative effort: create a poem; create a role.
5. adj. Archaic Created.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To bring into being; cause to exist; specifically, to produce without the prior existence of the material used, or of other things like the thing produced; produce out of nothing.
2. To make or produce from crude or scattered materials; bring into form; embody: as, Peter the Great created the city of St. Petersburg; Palladio created a new style of architecture.
3. To make or form by investing with a new character or functions; ordain; constitute; appoint: as, to create one a peer.
4. To be the occasion of; bring about; cause; produce.
5. To beget; generate; bring forth.
6. To originate; engage in originative action.
7. Begotten; composed; created.

Wiktionary

1. v. To put into existence.
2. v. To design, invest with a new form, shape, &c.
3. v. To be creative, imaginative.
4. v. To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
5. v. To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or restored for the incumbent.
6. v. To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent title (notably a church in Rome).
7. adj. Created, resulting from creation.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Created; composed; begotten.
2. v. To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.
3. v. 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.
4. v. To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. bring into existence
2. v. create or manufacture a man-made product
3. v. create by artistic means
4. v. invest with a new title, office, or rank
5. v. make or cause to be or to become
6. v. pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity