different between creation vs authoring

English

Etymology

From Middle English creacion, creacioun, creation, from Old French creacion (French création), from Latin cre?ti?, creationis; equivalent to create +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?i??e???n/
• IPA^(key): [k?i???e???n]
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

creation (countable and uncountable, plural creations)

1. (countable) Something created such as an invention or artwork.

2. (uncountable) The act of creating something.

3. (uncountable) All which exists.

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Translations

Anagrams

• actioner, actorine, anoretic, anticore, reaction, reäction

Interlingua

Noun

creation (plural creationes)

1. creation

Middle English

Noun

creation

1. Alternative form of creacion

English

Verb

authoring

1. present participle of author

Noun

authoring (plural authorings)

1. The process of creating the content of a document or other content item, i.e., writing or composition.
2. The result of this process; a writing or composition.

Usage notes

The sense of the process of composition is very common in computing and multimedia. Also often in attribution: an authoring tool, i.e. a tool used for authoring.

Quotations

• 1995, Hazel Henderson, Paradigms in Progress [1]

  Hence our readings and subsequent authorings tend to be partial and one sided, [...]

• 1999, Edward W Soja, Postmetropolis [2]

  While these authorings have not gone uncontested, unopposed, unresisted, they have been hegemonic.

• 2003, A. Robert Lee, Multicultural American Literature [3]

  English-language authorings offer a complement.

• 2004, Lee Purcell, Making DVDs [4]

  The DVD authoring in this process relies on providing a digital master of the video and a time-coded VHS cassette to the person handling the authoring.

Derived terms

• authoring program
• authoring tool
• authorware