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(v)
(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
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(transitive) To put into a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise
To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
(transitive) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.
(n)
The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
To constitute, to compose.
To form or create with concerted effort.
(transitive) To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating.
(transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
(transitive) To find or learn something for the first time.
(transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
(transitive) To create.
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
(transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
(transitive) To adapt into a different form; to give a new style or image to.
A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, intuition, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan.
(intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
(transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
(intransitive) To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with).
(intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
(idiomatic) A person responsible for the highest level of planning and execution of a major operation.
To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.
(transitive) To conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.
An organization founded to promote a cause
(transitive, nonstandard) To make an inventory of.
To inventively innovate.
(obsolete) To invent; to contrive.
Alternative form of inventorize. [(transitive, nonstandard) To make an inventory of.]
(transitive, archaic) To find; discover.
A device used to produce music.
(idiomatic) To create in one’s mind; to invent.
A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
(metaphysics) The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.
(idiomatic) To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
(transitive) To devise or solve by a process of thought.
(idiomatic) To create a new product, method, or idea that is better than an existing version of something already common or widely used.
Obsolete form of devise. [(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).]
(transitive) To surpass in invention; to invent more or better than.
To conceive the idea for something.
To create in one's mind; to originate an idea through thought.
A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
(transitive) To engineer again, to redesign or extensively modify in design.
(uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
(computing, transitive) To power up, launch, or instantiate.
To devise again.
The beginning of an activity.
Synonym of come up with (“to manage to produce something by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it”).
(adj)
That exists without having been created.
To imagine or conceive something in a new way
(intransitive) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer; to advise.
To make something routine, automatic or monotonous.
To mechanize; to change so that (something) is done by machines.
A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.
Alternative form of machinize. [To systematize; to create a well-defined process for.]
(idiomatic) To think of; to discover or invent.
(transitive, Canada, US) To generate, devise, or create.
(transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
(transitive) To acquire or obtain.
(transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
One who is spiritually reborn.
(intransitive) To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
Dated form of mechanize. [To equip something with machinery.]
A systematic plan of future action.
To conceive something in a new way
(reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
(transitive) To make mechanical; to mechanize.
(uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
(intransitive) To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.
To make up; invent.
To cut meat in order to serve it.
An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
(cooking) A person who prepares food.
(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
(transitive, slang, idiomatic) To subject (a person) to a severe scolding, interrogation, beating, etc.
(transitive) To fabricate again or anew.
A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
(intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
To construct from; to create (something) using (a material or substance).
To design or adapt so as to suit (someone).
(informal) A creation of one's brain; an original idea or innovation of a person or group of people, an organization, etc.
(transitive) To conceptualize afresh; to develop a replacement concept of.
(obsolete) To experiment.
(archaic, rare, transitive) To create anew; recreate.
The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
To convert into an object of the imagination; to fantasize about.
Dated spelling of create.