creating

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of create.

   The architect is creating detailed plans for the new library.

   Creating a fair test required input from every teacher.

   Note

   One spelling does two jobs. After a form of be it is the participle (is creating plans). As a subject or after a preposition it is the gerund, a verbal noun that still takes a direct object. Like create, it nearly always has an object. Joseph Stiglitz, in The Guardian Weekly (2013), calls a tax system "pivotal in creating the increasing inequality," where it means to cause rather than to build. The final e of create drops before -ing.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act or process of bringing something into existence.

   The slow creating of trust between the two sides took years of effort.

   Much of the budget went toward the creating of public parks across the city.

   Similarcreation, building, establishment, making

   Note

   Here the -ing word has become a full noun. It takes the and of instead of a direct object, and it can be counted: The Bibliotheca Sacra of 1876 speaks of "cosmic creatings and geogonic creatings." That is the test that separates it from the gerund. Creating a park is verbal, while the creating of a park is nominal. Its everyday equivalent is creation.

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