Inspire vs. Create — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Inspire and Create
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Inspire
To affect, guide, or arouse by divine influence.
Create
Bring (something) into existence
He created a thirty-acre lake
Over 170 jobs were created
Inspire
To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion
Hymns that inspire the congregation.
An artist who was inspired by Impressionism.
Create
Make a fuss; complain
Little kids create because they hate being ignored
Inspire
To stimulate to action; motivate
A sales force that was inspired by the prospect of a bonus.
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Create
To cause to exist; bring into being
Created a new music school.
Inspire
To cause (someone) to have a particular feeling; affect or touch
"At this moment he inspired her with disgust rather than with love" (Anthony Trollope).
Create
To give rise to; produce
That remark created a stir.
Inspire
To cause someone to have (a feeling or reaction); elicit or arouse
A teacher who inspired admiration and respect.
Create
To produce through artistic or imaginative effort
Create a poem.
Create a dramatic role.
Inspire
To be the cause or source of; bring about
An invention that inspired many imitations.
Create
To invest with an office or title; appoint
He was created a baron.
Inspire
To draw in (air) by inhaling.
Create
Created.
Inspire
To breathe on.
Create
(transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
You can create the color orange by mixing yellow and red.
Inspire
To breathe life into.
Create
To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
Inspire
To stimulate energies, ideals, or reverence
A leader who inspires by example.
Create
To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.
Couturiers create exclusive garments for an affluent clientele.
Inspire
To inhale.
Create
(transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
Crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties
A sudden chemical spill on the highway created a chain‐collision which created a record traffic jam.
Inspire
(transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
Create
(transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
Henry VIII created him a Duke.
Last month, the queen created two barons.
Under the concordate with Belgium, at least one Belgian clergyman must be created cardinal; by tradition, every archbishop of Mechelen is thus created a cardinal.
Inspire
(transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue.
The captain's speech was aimed to inspire her team to victory in the final.
Create
(intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.
Children usually enjoy creating, never mind if it is of any use!
Inspire
(intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
Create
(transitive) In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
Inspire
To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
Create
To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
Inspire
To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
Create
(obsolete) Created, resulting from creation.
Inspire
(transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.
Create
Created; composed; begotten.
Hearts create of duty and zeal.
Inspire
To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
When Zephirus eek, with his sweete breath,Inspirèd hath in every holt and heathThe tender crops.
Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing,The breathing instruments inspire.
Create
To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
Inspire
To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul.
Create
To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.
Your eye in ScotlandWould create soldiers.
Create in me a clean heart.
Inspire
To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; - opposed to expire.
Forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty.
Create
To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.
Inspire
To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
And generous stout courage did inspire.
But dawning day new comfort hath inspired.
Create
Make or cause to be or to become;
Make a mess in one's office
Create a furor
Inspire
To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue; to inspire a person to do extraordinary feats.
Erato, thy poet's mind inspire,And fill his soul with thy celestial fire.
Create
Bring into existence;
The company was created 25 years ago
He created a new movement in painting
Inspire
To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; - opposed to expire.
Create
Pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity;
Don't disturb him--he is creating
Inspire
To breathe; to blow gently.
And when the wind amongst them did inspire,They wavèd like a penon wide dispread.
Create
Invest with a new title, office, or rank;
Create one a peer
Inspire
Heighten or intensify;
These paintings exalt the imagination
Create
Create by artistic means;
Create a poem
Schoenberg created twelve-tone music
Picasso created Cubism
Auden made verses
Inspire
Supply the inspiration for;
The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work
Create
Create or manufacture a man-made product;
We produce more cars than we can sell
The company has been making toys for two centuries
Inspire
Serve as the inciting cause of;
She prompted me to call my relatives
Inspire
Urge on or encourage especially by shouts;
The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
Inspire
Fill with revolutionary ideas
Inspire
Draw in (air);
Inhale deeply
Inhale the fresh mountain air
The patient has trouble inspiring
The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well
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