construct
verbUK, US /kənˈstɹʌkt/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin cōnstrūctus, from cōnstruō (“to heap together”), from com- (“together”) + struō (“to heap up, pile”). Doublet of construe.
1
To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
- We constructed the radio from spares.
- A wall constructed of random stones.
1 more example
- The Carnarvonshire Railway was incorporated by an Act of July 29, 1862, with powers to construct a standard-gauge line from the Bangor & Carnarvon at Caernarvon [1958 spelling] to Portmadoc, a distance of 27¾ miles, but only the centre portion, from Penygroes to Afonwen, 11¾ miles, was built.1958 September 23, J. M. Dunn, “The Afonwen Line—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 594:
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
- A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.
- The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings, to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.1997, Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories:
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Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
- Construct a circle that touches each vertex of the given triangle.
- The arc of a circle may be very little, but, given that, it is possible to construct the entire figure.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
- Antonyms
- destroy, disassemble, dismantle, ruin, wreck, take apart
- Derived terms
- coconstruct, constructable, constructibility, constructible, constructive, deconstruct, foreconstruct, galcon, ill-constructed, interconstruct, misconstruct, overconstruct, preconstruct, reconstruct, unconstruct