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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.

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... went into his painting; only now and then a drop escaped that voracious funnel and splashed on to life. It is by collecting and arranging these odd drops and splashes that M. Vollard has managed to construct his lively picture of this extraordinary character. It is because his task must have been so abominably exacting—the task of catching the artist outside his work—that we easily forgive him a few lapses from good sense when he is not talking about his hero. ...

— Since Cezanne • Clive Bell

... shaded her forehead, but did not hide her laughing eyes, or the dimples in her pink cheeks. The fair, slender girl, the dark, stalwart young fellow so close to her, the rain, the half-sheltered horses,—it was easy enough to construct ...

— Clover • Susan Coolidge

... all the best Architecture is to construct a building of such a kind that it will withstand the ruin of the ages and will prove an opportunity for doing well whatever it is built for. The purpose of a house is that a man should be able to live in it. The essence of a church is that it should provide a place of worship. It is easy ...

— A History of Giggleswick School - From its Foundation 1499 to 1912 • Edward Allen Bell

... concretely as we now feel a passing minute, we should have very little employment for our conceptual faculty. We should know the whole period fully at every moment of its passage, whereas we must now construct it laboriously by means of concepts which we project. Direct acquaintance and conceptual knowledge are thus complementary of each other; each remedies the other's defects. If what we care most about be the synoptic treatment of phenomena, the vision ...

— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James

... should have devoted not only his days, but his nights, to gleaning the scanty portion of actual information that he scatters through his volumes; they will have a much more substantive foundation than those of the theologian, who shall construct his morality upon the harlequin scenery of systems that so frequently change, even in his own distempered brain. If the atheist, as they please to call those who differ in opinion with themselves, objects to the correctness, of—their systems, he cannot deny his own existence, nor that of ...

— The System of Nature, Vol. 2 • Baron D'Holbach

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