Construct
[kən'strʌkt]
Definition
(verb.) draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions; 'construct an equilateral triangle'.
(verb.) make by combining materials and parts; 'this little pig made his house out of straw'; 'Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer'.
(verb.) create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts; 'construct a proof'; 'construct an argument'.
(verb.) create by linking linguistic units; 'construct a sentence'; 'construct a paragraph'.
Typed by Chauncey--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.
(v. t.) To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics.
(a.) Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference.
Inputed by Emilia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Fabricate, build, erect, raise, set up, put together.[2]. Organize, institute, arrange, make, form, frame.
Inputed by Harvey
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Compose, build, fabricate, form, erect, invent, frame
ANT:Derange, destroy, demolish, overthrow
Checker: Natalia
Definition
v.t. to build up: to compile: to put together the parts of a thing: to make: to compose.—adj. constructed.—adjs. Construct′able Construct′ible able to be constructed.—ns. Construct′er Construct′or; Construc′tion the act of constructing: anything piled together building: manner of forming: (gram.) the arrangement of words in a sentence: interpretation: meaning.—adjs. Construc′tional pertaining to construction; Construct′ive capable of constructing: not direct or expressed but inferred.—adv. Construct′ively.—ns. Construct′iveness the faculty of constructing; Construct′ure.—Construct state in Hebrew and other Semitic languages the state of a noun depending on another noun which in Aryan languages would be in the genitive case—e.g. House of God—house being in the construct state.—Bear a construction to allow of a particular interpretation.
Typist: Norton
Examples
- Accordingly he begins to construct the State. Plato. The Republic.
- In their plays, they like to construct their own toys and appliances. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He commenced to construct an automatic calculating machine, which he called a difference engine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But ought we to attempt to construct one? Plato. The Republic.
- Their minds construct a utopia--one in which all judgments are based on logical inference from syllogisms built on the law of mathematical probabilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His far-distant goal was to construct a machine that would carry, not the dots and dashes of the telegraph, but the complex vibrations of the human voice. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Davy was not the born inventor, drawn irresistibly to construct something new. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It is said that as far back as 1835 Stratingh and Becker, of Groeningen, and in 1836 Botto, of Turin, constructed crude electric carriages. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Double cultivators are constructed so that their outside teeth may be adjusted in and out from the centre of the machine to meet the width of the rows between which they operate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Over 2,000 buildings were constructed besides the remodeling of 1,500 buildings turned over by the French company. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We picture political institutions as mechanically constructed contrivances within which the nation's life is contained and compelled to approximate some abstract idea of justice or liberty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Edison constructed a primitive machine capable of recording and reproducing sounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The operation is novel, not the materials out of which it is constructed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Emphasis is placed upon the devising, adapting, constructing faculties. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was also rapidly getting out the materials and constructing the boats for a third bridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The cost of constructing these railways had been ￡286,000,000. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- As to constructing toys for the Minders, out of nothing, he had done that daily. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Henry of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station we are enabled to present full instructions in regard to constructing and filling a silo. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I know it will be impossible without constructing additional roads. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The enemy did not harass us much while we were constructing our batteries. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For philosophic theory has no Aladdin's lamp to summon into immediate existence the values which it intellectually constructs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- These are the steps by which Plato constructs the first or primitive State, introducing the elements of political economy by the way. Plato. The Republic.
- He is not an inventor as much as he is a detective; he picks up the clews to certain happenings and constructs a working theory to fit them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In mechanics this theory that he constructs usually takes the form of a machine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Typist: Xavier