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adj
- (of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
- Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
- (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
- (euphemistic, of art) bad, unartistic, busy.
- Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
- promoting construction or creation
- having the ability or power to create
noun
verb
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To begin one's menstrual cycle.
- To set in motion.
- To begin.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
- (intransitive) To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise.
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (transitive) To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee.
- (ergative, of an object) To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- play in the starting lineup
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- get off the ground
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- bulge outward
- begin or set in motion
- depart for someplace
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- get going or set in motion
- bring into being
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
noun
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- An instance of starting.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the beginning of anything
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
noun
- A concept or creation endeared by its creator.
- Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chicks for the babies of birds. See :Category:Baby animals for more.
- A person's romantic partner; a term of endearment used to refer to or address e.g. one's girlfriend, boyfriend, or spouse.
- A person who is new to or inexperienced in something.
- A person who is immature, infantile, or feeble.
- (informal) A form of address to a person considered to be attractive.
- The lastborn of a family; the youngest sibling, irrespective of age.
- A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
- (often attributive) One who is new to an identity or community.
- A very young human, even if not yet born.
- An affectionate term for anything.
- A pet project or responsibility.
- a very young mammal
- a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
- a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
- an unborn child; a human fetus
- the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young)
- an immature childish person
- a project of personal concern to someone
adj
verb
noun
- (figuratively) A basis for creative work.
- (nautical) Sails in general.
- A tent.
- (Nigeria) Athletic shoes.
- A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.
- A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
- A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
- (painting) A piece of such cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint an artwork.
- (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
- the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account
- a heavy, closely woven fabric
- an oil painting on canvas fabric
- a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
- a tent made of canvas fabric
- the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
verb
noun
- (figuratively) Someone who originates something.
- (biology) An ancestral form of a species.
- A person from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation…) are descended.
- A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
- (figuratively) A predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.
- A founder.
- an ancestor in the direct line
adj
noun
noun
- the act of inventing a word or phrase
- a newly invented word or phrase
- coins collectively
- (countable, lexicography) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.
- (uncountable) Coins taken collectively; currency.
- (uncountable, lexicography) The creation of new words, neologizing.
- The process of creating something new.
- The process of coining money.
noun
- the act of inventing a word or phrase
- a newly invented word or phrase
- (linguistics, lexicography, countable) A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase.
- (linguistics, lexicography, countable, by extension) An existing word or phrase which has gained a new meaning.
- (theology, historical) Synonym of neology.
- (linguistics, uncountable) The act or instance of coining, or uttering a new word.
- (psychiatry) The newly coined, meaningless words or phrases of someone with a psychosis, usually schizophrenia.
noun
verb
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- To descend in a family line.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- (climbing) To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
- To remove the stem from.
- (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- remove the stem from
- stop the flow of a liquid
- grow out of, have roots in, originate in
- cause to point inward
noun
- Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”).
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- (nautical, loosely) The front part of a vessel.
- Alternative form of steem.
- (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A branch of a family.
- (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- Alternative form of STEM.
- (slang) The penis.
- (nautical, precisely) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- (slang) A person's leg.
- (taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
- a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the tube of a tobacco pipe
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
noun
- The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work.
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- (US copyright law) The initial owner of the copyright to a work, especially a work made for hire or a work of corporate authorship.
- (figurative) The creator or cause of anything.
- Someone who writes books for a living.
- writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
- That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
- The initial portion of some extended thing.
- That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- the act of starting something
- the first part or section of something
- the event consisting of the start of something
adj
verb
noun
- Initialism of creative industries.
- (politics) Initialism of constitutional initiative.
- (espionage) Initialism of counterintelligence.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of confidential informant.
- Initialism of Companion, part of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.
- Initialism of competitive intelligence.
- Initialism of civil infraction.
- Initialism of cochlear implant.
- Initialism of contextual inquiry.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of chief inspector, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (software engineering) Initialism of continuous integration.
- (statistics) Initialism of confidence interval.
- (linguistics) Initialism of comprehensible input.
- Initialism of cast iron.
- Initialism of corporate identity (“a specific design of a company, to be applied in all public appearances to be clearly distinguishable from its competitors”).
- (baseball) Initialism of corner infielder.
verb
- create or produce an idea
- cause to be born
- (transitive, figuratively, usually with to, idiomatic) To become the source of.
- (transitive, with to, of viviparous animals) To become the parent of by birthing.
- (intransitive, of viviparous animals) To release live offspring from the body into the environment.
noun
- the act of devising something
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
- A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
- Something overly artful or artificial.
verb
- To create in one's mind; to originate an idea through thought.
- devise or invent
- (in rhetorical questions) Used to suggest an aberrant thought, idea or action.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see think, of. (to think on the subject of)
- (often imperative) Consider, used to emphasise a reason to act in a certain way.
- look on as or consider
- choose in one's mind
- take into consideration, have in view
- intend to refer to
- keep in mind for attention or consideration
verb
- To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise
- To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
- To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.
- come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
- make or work out a plan for; devise
- put or send forth
noun
- a product of your creative thinking and work
- (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings
- arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
- a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
- arousing to a particular emotion or action
- The act or process of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
- (countable) A single inward breath (intake of air).
- (physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of breathing.
- A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.
- A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
- A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
verb
noun
- The act of inventing.
- Something invented.
- (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
- The capacity to invent.
- the creation of something in the mind
- a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
- the act of inventing
noun
- Something or someone which creates or makes something.
- (sports) A player who creates opportunities for their team to score goals; a playmaker.
- (religion, sometimes capitalized) The deity that created the world.
- (social media) Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.
- a person who grows or makes or invents things
verb
- originate or come into being
- result or issue
- rise to one's feet
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- get up and out of bed
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- move upward
- (intransitive) To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.
- (intransitive) To come up from a lower to a higher position.
- (intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
verb
- originate or come into being
- result or issue
- come up, of celestial bodies
- be mentioned
- start running, functioning, or operating
- bring forth, usually something desirable
- come to the surface
- gather or bring together
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- move upward
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To appear (before a judge or court).
- (intransitive) To come towards; to approach.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To do well or be successful.
- (intransitive) To reach in height.
- (UK, Oxford University, intransitive) To arrive at the university. (Compare go down, send down.)
- (intransitive) To be revealed to have a certain value, quality, or status.
- (intransitive) To come to attention and present oneself; to arrive or appear.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To happen or occur.
- (British, slang, intransitive) To begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, of a heavenly body) To rise (above the horizon).
- (intransitive) To draw near in time.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To grow up; to experience a childhood.
- (intransitive) To approach a time or scheduled event.
noun
noun
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas
- an electronic device for producing a signal voltage
- engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction
- (mathematics) An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the given relators.
- (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
- Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
- (programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.
- (geometry) One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
- A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
- (chemistry) An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
- (music) An interval that is repeatedly stacked to obtain other pitches in tuning systems or scales.
noun
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- a facility where something is available
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
- anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
- a document (or organization) from which information is obtained
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
- a person who supplies information
- A reporter's informant.
- Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
- (mathematics, category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
- The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
- (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- (computing) Source code.
- (graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
verb
adj
verb
noun
- That from which a thing is derived.
- (mathematics) A formal proof: a sequence of statements, each of which is logically entailed by those preceding (with respect to some collection of rules of inference), the initial statements being taken as axioms.
- (grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
- A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
- That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
- The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
- (mathematics, differential algebra) An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
- Any of several generalizations of this notion: a Hasse–Schmidt derivation, a graded derivation, etc.
- (medicine, historical) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
- (genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
- (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
- the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
- the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
verb
- devise or invent
- draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
- inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
- emerge from the eggs
- sit on (eggs)
- (intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
- (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
- (intransitive, of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
- (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
- (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
- (transitive) To devise (a plot or scheme).
noun
- shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open
- a movable barrier covering a hatchway
- the production of young from an egg
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- (Scotland) A bedstead.
- (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
- (figurative) Development; disclosure; discovery.
- (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
- (slang) A gullet.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
- (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- A trapdoor.
- The act of hatching.
- (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
adj
- having the ability to produce or originate
- producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
- yielding positive results
- marked by great fruitfulness
- (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.
- Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
- (medicine) Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
- Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
- Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- (linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
- (medicine) Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
verb
- conceive or fashion in the mind; invent
- create designs
- intend or have as a purpose
- plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect
- make or work out a plan for; devise
- create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner
- (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
- To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.
noun
- something intended as a guide for making something else
- the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
- a decorative or artistic work
- the creation of something in the mind
- an arrangement scheme
- a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something
- an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
- Intention or plot.
- A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
- A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
- (particularly) Malicious or malevolent intention.
- The art of designing
- The composition of a work of art.
- The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
- A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.
noun
- the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing
- the kinship relation between an offspring and the father
- the state of being a father
- Parental descent from a father.
- (law) Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.
- Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
- (figuratively) Authorship.
adj
- Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.
- Purposely fictive.
- Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
- (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action
noun
- (figurative) The origin or earliest version of an idea or project.
- A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
- (biology) The small mass of cells from which a part of an organism develops, or a macroscopic but immature form of that part; a bud.
- (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
- The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.
- a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To originate or stem (from).
- (transitive, linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
- (transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
- (transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
- (transitive, chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
- (transitive, mathematics, proscribed) To differentiate (a function).
- To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- obtain
- develop or evolve from a latent or potential state
- obtain from a particular source
- reason by deduction; establish by deduction
adj
- being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of
- (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary
- not derived or copied or translated from something else
- preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed
- (comparable) Fresh, different.
- (not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
- (not comparable) Having a specified place or time as its origin.
- (not comparable) Pioneering.
- (of a potato chip) Seasoned with salt but no other flavoring; ready salted
- (not comparable) Newly created.
- (not comparable) First in a series of copies or versions.
noun
- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
- A newly designed garment released by a fashion designer as part of a collection.
- A ridgeling.
- An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.
- A person with a unique and interesting personality or creative talent.
noun
- where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
- a baby bed with sides and rockers
- birth of a person
- a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
- A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
- (carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
- (contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
- A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
- (figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.
- (nautical) A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
- A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
- A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so as to prepare the ground.
- A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
- (mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
- A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
- (figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
- (mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
- A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
- An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
verb
- run with the stick
- hold gently and carefully
- bring up from infancy
- cut grain with a cradle scythe
- hold or place in or as if in a cradle
- wash in a cradle
- To nurse or train in infancy.
- To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
- To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
- (transitive) To contain in or as if in a cradle.
- To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
- To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
- (transitive) To rock (a baby to sleep).
- (transitive) To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.
- (lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
noun
- where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
- (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
- (art) The history of ownership of a work of art.
- Place or source of origin.
- (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
- (computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance).
- (of a person) Background; history; place of origin.
verb
phrase
- Initialism of to be designed.
- Initialism of to be deducted.
- Initialism of to be declared.
- Initialism of to be decided.
- Initialism of to be developed.
- Initialism of to be discovered.
- Initialism of to be done.
- Initialism of to be destroyed.
- Initialism of to be dated.
- Initialism of to be disclosed.
- Initialism of to be delivered.
- Initialism of to be derived.
- Initialism of to be discussed.
- Initialism of to be defined.
- Initialism of to be documented.
- Initialism of to be determined.
noun
noun
noun
- A concept or creation endeared by its creator.
- Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chicks for the babies of birds. See :Category:Baby animals for more.
- A person's romantic partner; a term of endearment used to refer to or address e.g. one's girlfriend, boyfriend, or spouse.
- A person who is new to or inexperienced in something.
- A person who is immature, infantile, or feeble.
- (informal) A form of address to a person considered to be attractive.
- The lastborn of a family; the youngest sibling, irrespective of age.
- A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
- (often attributive) One who is new to an identity or community.
- A very young human, even if not yet born.
- An affectionate term for anything.
- A pet project or responsibility.
- a very young mammal
- a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
- a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
- an unborn child; a human fetus
- the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young)
- an immature childish person
- a project of personal concern to someone
adj
verb
noun
- (figuratively) A basis for creative work.
- (nautical) Sails in general.
- A tent.
- (Nigeria) Athletic shoes.
- A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.
- A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
- A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
- (painting) A piece of such cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint an artwork.
- (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
- the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account
- a heavy, closely woven fabric
- an oil painting on canvas fabric
- a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
- a tent made of canvas fabric
- the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete
verb
noun
- (figuratively) Someone who originates something.
- (biology) An ancestral form of a species.
- A person from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation…) are descended.
- A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
- (figuratively) A predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.
- A founder.
- an ancestor in the direct line
noun
- the act of inventing a word or phrase
- a newly invented word or phrase
- coins collectively
- (countable, lexicography) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.
- (uncountable) Coins taken collectively; currency.
- (uncountable, lexicography) The creation of new words, neologizing.
- The process of creating something new.
- The process of coining money.
noun
- the act of inventing a word or phrase
- a newly invented word or phrase
- (linguistics, lexicography, countable) A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase.
- (linguistics, lexicography, countable, by extension) An existing word or phrase which has gained a new meaning.
- (theology, historical) Synonym of neology.
- (linguistics, uncountable) The act or instance of coining, or uttering a new word.
- (psychiatry) The newly coined, meaningless words or phrases of someone with a psychosis, usually schizophrenia.
noun
noun
- The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work.
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- (US copyright law) The initial owner of the copyright to a work, especially a work made for hire or a work of corporate authorship.
- (figurative) The creator or cause of anything.
- Someone who writes books for a living.
- writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
verb
noun
- That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
- The initial portion of some extended thing.
- That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- the act of starting something
- the first part or section of something
- the event consisting of the start of something
adj
verb
noun
- Initialism of creative industries.
- (politics) Initialism of constitutional initiative.
- (espionage) Initialism of counterintelligence.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of confidential informant.
- Initialism of Companion, part of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.
- Initialism of competitive intelligence.
- Initialism of civil infraction.
- Initialism of cochlear implant.
- Initialism of contextual inquiry.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of chief inspector, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (software engineering) Initialism of continuous integration.
- (statistics) Initialism of confidence interval.
- (linguistics) Initialism of comprehensible input.
- Initialism of cast iron.
- Initialism of corporate identity (“a specific design of a company, to be applied in all public appearances to be clearly distinguishable from its competitors”).
- (baseball) Initialism of corner infielder.
noun
- the act of devising something
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
- A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
- Something overly artful or artificial.
noun
- a product of your creative thinking and work
- (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings
- arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
- a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
- arousing to a particular emotion or action
- The act or process of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
- (countable) A single inward breath (intake of air).
- (physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of breathing.
- A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.
- A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
- A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
noun
- The act of inventing.
- Something invented.
- (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
- The capacity to invent.
- the creation of something in the mind
- a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
- the act of inventing
noun
- Something or someone which creates or makes something.
- (sports) A player who creates opportunities for their team to score goals; a playmaker.
- (religion, sometimes capitalized) The deity that created the world.
- (social media) Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.
- a person who grows or makes or invents things
noun
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas
- an electronic device for producing a signal voltage
- engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction
- (mathematics) An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the given relators.
- (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
- Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
- (programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.
- (geometry) One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
- A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
- (chemistry) An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
- (music) An interval that is repeatedly stacked to obtain other pitches in tuning systems or scales.
noun
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- a facility where something is available
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
- anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
- a document (or organization) from which information is obtained
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
- a person who supplies information
- A reporter's informant.
- Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
- (mathematics, category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
- The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
- (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- (computing) Source code.
- (graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
verb
noun
- That from which a thing is derived.
- (mathematics) A formal proof: a sequence of statements, each of which is logically entailed by those preceding (with respect to some collection of rules of inference), the initial statements being taken as axioms.
- (grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
- A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
- That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
- The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
- (mathematics, differential algebra) An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
- Any of several generalizations of this notion: a Hasse–Schmidt derivation, a graded derivation, etc.
- (medicine, historical) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
- (genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
- (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
- the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
- the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
noun
- the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing
- the kinship relation between an offspring and the father
- the state of being a father
- Parental descent from a father.
- (law) Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.
- Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
- (figuratively) Authorship.
noun
- (figurative) The origin or earliest version of an idea or project.
- A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
- (biology) The small mass of cells from which a part of an organism develops, or a macroscopic but immature form of that part; a bud.
- (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
- The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.
- a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
verb
noun
- where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
- a baby bed with sides and rockers
- birth of a person
- a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
- A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
- (carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
- (contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
- A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
- (figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.
- (nautical) A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
- A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
- A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so as to prepare the ground.
- A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
- (mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
- A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
- (figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
- (mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
- A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
- An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
verb
- run with the stick
- hold gently and carefully
- bring up from infancy
- cut grain with a cradle scythe
- hold or place in or as if in a cradle
- wash in a cradle
- To nurse or train in infancy.
- To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
- To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
- (transitive) To contain in or as if in a cradle.
- To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
- To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
- (transitive) To rock (a baby to sleep).
- (transitive) To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.
- (lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
noun
- where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
- (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
- (art) The history of ownership of a work of art.
- Place or source of origin.
- (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
- (computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance).
- (of a person) Background; history; place of origin.
verb
noun
verb
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To begin one's menstrual cycle.
- To set in motion.
- To begin.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
- (intransitive) To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise.
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (transitive) To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee.
- (ergative, of an object) To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- play in the starting lineup
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- get off the ground
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- bulge outward
- begin or set in motion
- depart for someplace
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- get going or set in motion
- bring into being
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
noun
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- An instance of starting.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the beginning of anything
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
verb
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- To descend in a family line.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- (climbing) To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
- To remove the stem from.
- (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- remove the stem from
- stop the flow of a liquid
- grow out of, have roots in, originate in
- cause to point inward
noun
- Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”).
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- (nautical, loosely) The front part of a vessel.
- Alternative form of steem.
- (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A branch of a family.
- (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- Alternative form of STEM.
- (slang) The penis.
- (nautical, precisely) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- (slang) A person's leg.
- (taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
- a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the tube of a tobacco pipe
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
verb
- create or produce an idea
- cause to be born
- (transitive, figuratively, usually with to, idiomatic) To become the source of.
- (transitive, with to, of viviparous animals) To become the parent of by birthing.
- (intransitive, of viviparous animals) To release live offspring from the body into the environment.
verb
- To create in one's mind; to originate an idea through thought.
- devise or invent
- (in rhetorical questions) Used to suggest an aberrant thought, idea or action.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see think, of. (to think on the subject of)
- (often imperative) Consider, used to emphasise a reason to act in a certain way.
- look on as or consider
- choose in one's mind
- take into consideration, have in view
- intend to refer to
- keep in mind for attention or consideration
verb
- To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise
- To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
- To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.
- come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
- make or work out a plan for; devise
- put or send forth
verb
verb
- originate or come into being
- result or issue
- rise to one's feet
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- get up and out of bed
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- move upward
- (intransitive) To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.
- (intransitive) To come up from a lower to a higher position.
- (intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
verb
- originate or come into being
- result or issue
- come up, of celestial bodies
- be mentioned
- start running, functioning, or operating
- bring forth, usually something desirable
- come to the surface
- gather or bring together
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- move upward
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To appear (before a judge or court).
- (intransitive) To come towards; to approach.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To do well or be successful.
- (intransitive) To reach in height.
- (UK, Oxford University, intransitive) To arrive at the university. (Compare go down, send down.)
- (intransitive) To be revealed to have a certain value, quality, or status.
- (intransitive) To come to attention and present oneself; to arrive or appear.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To happen or occur.
- (British, slang, intransitive) To begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, of a heavenly body) To rise (above the horizon).
- (intransitive) To draw near in time.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To grow up; to experience a childhood.
- (intransitive) To approach a time or scheduled event.
noun
verb
- devise or invent
- draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
- inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
- emerge from the eggs
- sit on (eggs)
- (intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
- (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
- (intransitive, of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
- (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
- (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
- (transitive) To devise (a plot or scheme).
noun
- shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open
- a movable barrier covering a hatchway
- the production of young from an egg
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- (Scotland) A bedstead.
- (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
- (figurative) Development; disclosure; discovery.
- (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
- (slang) A gullet.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
- (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- A trapdoor.
- The act of hatching.
- (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
verb
- conceive or fashion in the mind; invent
- create designs
- intend or have as a purpose
- plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect
- make or work out a plan for; devise
- create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner
- (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
- To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.
noun
- something intended as a guide for making something else
- the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
- a decorative or artistic work
- the creation of something in the mind
- an arrangement scheme
- a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something
- an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
- Intention or plot.
- A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
- A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
- (particularly) Malicious or malevolent intention.
- The art of designing
- The composition of a work of art.
- The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
- A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.
verb
- (intransitive) To originate or stem (from).
- (transitive, linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
- (transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
- (transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
- (transitive, chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
- (transitive, mathematics, proscribed) To differentiate (a function).
- To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- obtain
- develop or evolve from a latent or potential state
- obtain from a particular source
- reason by deduction; establish by deduction
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- (of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
- Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
- (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
- (euphemistic, of art) bad, unartistic, busy.
- Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
- promoting construction or creation
- having the ability or power to create
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- having the ability to produce or originate
- producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
- yielding positive results
- marked by great fruitfulness
- (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.
- Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
- (medicine) Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
- Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
- Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- (linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
- (medicine) Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
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- Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.
- Purposely fictive.
- Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
- (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action
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- being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of
- (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary
- not derived or copied or translated from something else
- preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed
- (comparable) Fresh, different.
- (not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
- (not comparable) Having a specified place or time as its origin.
- (not comparable) Pioneering.
- (of a potato chip) Seasoned with salt but no other flavoring; ready salted
- (not comparable) Newly created.
- (not comparable) First in a series of copies or versions.
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- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
- A newly designed garment released by a fashion designer as part of a collection.
- A ridgeling.
- An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.
- A person with a unique and interesting personality or creative talent.