Construct

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To form by assembling or combining parts; build.
  • v. To create (an argument or a sentence, for example) by systematically arranging ideas or terms.
  • v. Mathematics To draw (a geometric figure) that meets specific requirements.
  • n. Something formed or constructed from parts.
  • n. A concept, model, or schematic idea: a theoretical construct of the atom.
  • n. A concrete image or idea: "[He] began to shift focus from the haunted constructs of terror in his early work” ( Stephen Koch).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Something constructed from parts.
  • n. A concept or model.
  • v. To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
  • v. Similarly, to build (a sentence or an argument) by arranging words or ideas.
  • v. (geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make.
  • v. To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange.
  • adj. Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To put together the parts of in their proper place and order; erect; build; form: as, to construct an edifice or a ship.
  • To devise and put into orderly arrangement; form by the mind; frame; fabricate; evolve the form of: as, to construct a story.
  • To interpret or understand; construe.
  • To draw, as a figure, so as to fulfil given conditions. See construction, 4.
  • To engage in or practise construction.
  • In grammar, constituting or expressing connection as governing substantive with the substantive governed.
  • n. Something constructed or created.
  • n. In compar. psychol., the mental picture answering to a real or a possible object of sense: regarded as the mental result of the action of external stimuli.
  • n. In mathematics, a configuration or surface.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
  • v. reassemble mentally
  • v. put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
  • v. make by combining materials and parts
  • v. create by linking linguistic units
  • v. create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts
  • v. draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions
  • Equivalent
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    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    form    invent    erect    compile    originate    fabricate    build    make    devise    arrange   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    abduct    bucked    chucked    conduct    deconstruct    deduct    destruct    ducked    duct    fucked   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    accurate    spaceholm    explain    ontop    compostability    baulk    arrange    underside    disassembler    dirtside