construct

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to reassemble mentally

   The police asked me to construct the events of 20 years ago.

2. 2
   verb

   to draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions

   construct an equilateral triangle

3. 3
   verb

   to create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts

   construct a proof

4. 4
   verb

   to create by linking linguistic units

   construct a sentence

5. 5
   noun

   Something constructed from parts.

   The artwork was a construct of wire and tubes.

6. 6
   noun

   A concept or model.

   Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.

7. 7
   verb

   To build or form (something) by assembling parts.

   We constructed the radio from spares.

8. 8
   verb

   To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.

   A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnstrūctus, from cōnstruō (“to heap together”), from com- (“together”) + struō (“to heap up, pile”). Doublet of construe.