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Construct

verb

(past & past part. constructed; pres. part. constructing)

1.

Make by combining materials and parts. Synonyms: build, make. "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"

2.

Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts. Synonyms: fabricate, manufacture. "They manufacture small toys" , "He manufactured a popular cereal"

3.

Draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions.

4.

Create by linking linguistic units. "Construct a paragraph"

5.

Create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts. "Construct an argument"

6.

Reassemble mentally. Synonyms: reconstruct, retrace.

noun

1.

An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances. Synonyms: concept, conception. Antonym: misconception.

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... well versed in his profession, and was a clever mechanic to boot, and who had made a special study of submarine craft, proposed to Ker Karraje that they should construct one of these boats in order to continue their criminal exploits with greater ...

— Facing the Flag • Jules Verne

... birds breeding in a southern climate construct far less elaborate nests than when breeding in a northern climate. Certain species of waterfowl, that abandon their eggs to the sand and the sun in the warmer zones, build a nest and sit in the usual way in Labrador. ...

— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs

... to passenger traffic on the large scale was quite a later and secondary consideration. It was only by accident, so to speak, that the true capabilities of railways were finally discovered in the actual course of their practical employment. George Stephenson was not the first person to construct either a locomotive or a tramway. Both were already in use, in more or less rude forms, at several collieries. But he was the first person to bring the two to such a pitch of perfection, that what had been at first a mere clumsy mining contrivance, became developed into a smooth and ...

— Biographies of Working Men • Grant Allen

... a treaty of amity and commerce with the king of Columbo, who furnished the Portuguese with cinnamon; and Soarez went thither at this time, by order of the king of Portugal, to construct a fort at Columbo, and to reduce the prince of that country to pay tribute. On this occasion his fleet consisted of seven gallies, two ships, and eight small vessels, carrying materials and workmen for building the fort, ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI - Early English Voyages Of Discovery To America • Robert Kerr

... proposed to construct in Paris that handsome building called the Observatory, the King himself chose the site for this. Having a map of his capital before him, he wished this fine edifice to be in a direct line of perspective with the Luxembourg, to which it should eventually be joined by the demolition of the Carthusian ...

— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan

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