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CREATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)
Domain category:
divinity; theology (the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth)
Derivation:
create (bring into existence)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
Example:
the foundation of a new scientific society
Synonyms:
creation; foundation; founding; initiation; innovation; instauration; institution; introduction; origination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("creation" is a kind of...):
beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creation"):
authorship; paternity (the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing)
Derivation:
create (bring into existence)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The human act of creating
Synonyms:
creation; creative activity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("creation" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creation"):
erotica; porn; porno; pornography; smut (creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire)
re-creation (the act of creating again)
creating from raw materials (the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it)
production (the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services)
creating by mental acts (the act of creating something by thinking)
art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)
creating by removal (the act of creating by removing something)
Derivation:
create (create or manufacture a man-made product)
create (pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity)
create (bring into existence)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An artifact that has been brought into existence by someone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("creation" is a kind of...):
artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creation"):
piece (an artistic or literary composition)
representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)
remake; remaking (creation that is created again or anew)
product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)
needlecraft; needlework (a creation created or assembled by needle and thread)
master; master copy; original (an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made)
innovation; invention (a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation)
improvisation (a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation))
composition (something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole)
classic (a creation of the highest excellence)
art; fine art (the products of human creativity; works of art collectively)
Derivation:
create (create or manufacture a man-made product)
create (bring into existence)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The event that occurred at the beginning of something
Example:
from its creation the plan was doomed to failure
Synonyms:
conception; creation
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("creation" is a kind of...):
beginning (the event consisting of the start of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creation"):
fecundation; fertilisation; fertilization; impregnation (creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant)
Derivation:
create (create by artistic means)
create (bring into existence)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Everything that exists anywhere
Example:
the biggest tree in existence
Synonyms:
cosmos; creation; existence; macrocosm; universe; world
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("creation" is a kind of...):
natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)
Meronyms (parts of "creation"):
celestial body; heavenly body (natural objects visible in the sky)
estraterrestrial body; extraterrestrial object (a natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere)
Meronyms (members of "creation"):
extragalactic nebula; galaxy ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creation"):
closed universe ((cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter)
natural order (the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws)
nature (the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.)
Context examples:
A DNA sequence rearrangement that results in the creation of novel immunoglobulins and T-cell receptors expressed by lymphocytes.
(Clonal Gene Rearrangement, NCI Thesaurus)
The ultimate result in either pathway is the creation of the membrane attack complex, a large pore in the cell membrane that results in cell lysis.
(Alternative Complement Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The lack of sufficient water to carve gullies has resulted in a variety of theories for the gullies' creation, including different mechanisms involving evaporation of water and carbon dioxide frost.
(Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water, NASA)
The dwarf planet, discovered in 2005, is named for a creation deity of the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island.
(Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake, NASA)
Angiogenesis is a very complex, tightly regulated, multistep process, the targeting of which may well prove useful in the creation of novel therapeutic agents.
(Angiogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Creation of a visual window of the apex of the root that includes retrofilling the apical portion of the root canal.
(Apical Endodontic Surgery, NCI Thesaurus)
Surgical creation of an opening in the cecum.
(Cecostomy, NCI Thesaurus)
The creation of bubbles is driven by mechanical force.
(Cavitation, NCI Thesaurus)
This requires the creation and dissemination of technologies that can read and interpret the molecular features of cancer.
(Cancer Genome Anatomy Project, NCI Thesaurus)
Formation of Apurinic Site involves the creation of an apurinic site as a result of the loss of a purine residue from DNA.
(Formation of Apurinic Site, NCI Thesaurus)
