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   construct

   verb

   • 1. build or make (something, typically a building, road, or machine): "a company that constructs oil rigs" Similar builderectput upset upraiseestablishassemblemanufacturefabricateformfashioncontrivecreatemakeOpposite demolish
   • ▪ form (an idea or theory) by bringing together various conceptual elements: "poetics should construct a theory of literary discourse" Similar formulateformput togethercreatedevisedesigninventcomposeconcoctcontrivework outhatchfashionmouldmodelshapeframeforgeengineerfabricatemanufacturehammer outthrash out
   • ▪ form (a sentence) according to grammatical rules: "these rules tell us how to construct a grammatical sentence in a given language"
   • ▪ draw or delineate (a geometrical figure) accurately to given conditions: "construct a square equal in area to a given circle"

   noun

   • 1. an idea or theory containing various conceptual elements, typically one considered to be subjective and not based on empirical evidence: "history is largely an ideological construct"
   • ▪ a group of words forming a phrase: "the appropriateness of the grammatical construct is illustrated"
   • ▪ a physical thing which is deliberately built or formed: "a transgenic construct"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin construct- ‘heaped together, built’, from the verb construere, from con- ‘together’ + struere ‘pile, build’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. constructible adjective

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