English > create by mental act: 1 sense > verb 1, creation| Meaning | Create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Synonym | create mentally |
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| Narrower | construct | create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts |
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| construct | create by linking linguistic units |
| design, plan | make a design of |
| draw, make | make, formulate, or derive in the mind |
| evolve, germinate, develop | Work out |
| gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise | Have the idea for |
| give birth | create or produce an idea |
| imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case |
| invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge | come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort / effort |
| plan, project, contrive, design | make or work out a plan for |
| program, programme | Write a computer program |
| re-create | form / form anew in the imagination |
| schematize | formulate in regular order |
| think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct | devise or invent / invent |
| write | create code, write a computer program |
| Broader | make, create | make or cause to be or to become |
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