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创造,创作物,发明

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Creation \Cre*a"tion\ (kr?-A"sh?n), n. [L. creatio: cf. F.
   cr?ation. See {Create}.]
   1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the
      act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

            From the creation to the general doom. --Shak.

            As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to
            exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being;
            and this we call creation.            --Locke.

   2. That which is created; that which is produced or caused to
      exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the
      imagination; nature.

            We know that the whole creation groaneth. --Rom.
                                                  viii. 22.

            A dagger of the mind, a false creation. --Shak.

            Choice pictures and creations of curious art.
                                                  --Beaconsfield.

   3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character;
      appointment; formation.

            An Irish peer of recent creation.     --Landor.

资料来源 : WordNet®

creation
     n 1: the human act of creating [syn: {creative activity}]
     2: an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone
     3: the event that occurred at the beginning of something; "from
        its creation the plan was doomed to failure" [syn: {conception}]
     4: the act of starting something for the first time;
        introducing something new; "she looked forward to her
        initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new
        scientific society"; "he regards the fork as a modern
        introduction" [syn: {initiation}, {founding}, {foundation},
         {institution}, {origination}, {innovation}, {introduction},
         {instauration}]
     5: (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence
     6: everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution
        of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence" [syn: {universe},
         {existence}, {world}, {cosmos}, {macrocosm}]