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.