different between create vs concoct

English

Alternative forms

• creäte (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English createn, from Latin cre?tus, the perfect passive participle of cre?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?i??e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

create (third-person singular simple present creates, present participle creating, simple past and past participle created)

1. (transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
   • 1829, Thomas Tully Crybbace, An Essay on Moral Freedom:

     [...] God created man a moral agent.

   Synonym: generate

   Antonyms: annihilate, extinguish

   1. (especially of a god) To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
   2. To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.

      Synonym: invent

      Antonym: imitate

2. (transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.

   crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties
3. (transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.

4. (intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.

5. (transitive) In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
6. (Britain, intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
   • 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren

     'What's the time?' she said. 'I must fly. Miss'll start creating.'

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Adjective

create (comparative more create, superlative most create)

1. (obsolete) Created, resulting from creation.

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Further reading

• create at OneLook Dictionary Search
• create in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• create in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• create on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• & cetera, Cartee, cerate, ecarte, tracee, écarté

Italian

Verb

create

1. second-person plural indicative present of creare
2. second-person plural imperative of creare

Anagrams

• cerate, recate, tacere

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kre?a?.te/, [k?e?ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kre?a.te/, [k?????t??]

Verb

cre?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cre?

Participle

cre?te

1. vocative masculine singular of cre?tus

Middle English

Adjective

create

1. Alternative form of creat

Verb

create

1. Alternative form of creat

English

Etymology

From Latin concocti? (“digestion”), from con- (“together”) and coqu? (“cook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?k?kt/, [k????k??kt]

Verb

concoct (third-person singular simple present concocts, present participle concocting, simple past and past participle concocted)

1. To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.

   Synonyms: prepare, mix

   • 2007, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Well of Tears: Book Two of The Crowthistle Chronicles, Tor Books (?ISBN)

     Pecan shells make good fuel, and they are used by leather tanners to concoct their foul-smelling compounds, and sometimes we mix them with charcoal in hand-soap to make a really good scrubbing agent

   • 2014, Lisa Howard, Healthier Gluten-Free, Fair Winds Press (MA) (?ISBN), page 171:

     The twelve include Jill (she used to be a chicken-and-potatoes girl, but now she's willing to try whatever I concoct), […]

2. (figuratively) To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.

   Synonyms: contrive, plot, scheme

   • 2005, Jean Ferris, Into the Wind: Part One, iUniverse (?ISBN), page 161:

     He had two beautiful daughters who fell in love with men he approved of and he wanted to give them the most lavish double wedding he could concoct.

3. (obsolete) To digest.
   • 1703, Thomas Gibson, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized, page 297:

     For the parts of an Embryo are nourished and encreased before it hath a Stomach to concoct any thing, and yet in a perfect Fœtus none can deny that the Stomach does concoct […]

Derived terms

• concocter
• concoctor
• concoctive

Related terms

• concoction
• decoct

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