Construct

Definition: Construct

Construct

Noun

1. An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances.

Verb

1. Make by combining materials and parts: "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer".

2. Put together out of components or parts; "Ford makes cars"; "They manufacture small toys".

3. Draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions, of geometrical figures.

4. Of past events.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "construct" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

CONSTRUCT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Construct

Production

Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete).

Crosswords: Construct

Books

• Advances in Personal Construct Psychology 1992 (reference)

• How to Design and Construct Period Furniture (reference)

• Literacy: Helping Children Construct Meaning (reference)

• Regular Polygons: Applied New Theory of Trisection to Construct a Regular Heptagon for Centuries in the History of Mathematics (reference)

• Rodale's Illustrated Cabinetmaking: How to Design and Construct Furniture That Works (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• How - to Construct the Asiatic Composite Bow (reference)

• Road Construction/Building Construct (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Construct and Demolish [EP] (reference)

• Construct Destroy Rebuild (reference)

• Self Construct (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

All woodrat species are quick to occupy, and construct nests in human habitations or outbuildings within their range, thereby, bringing vector fleas into close contact with humans and their pets. Credit: CDC.

All wood rat species are quick to occupy and construct nests in human habitations or outbuildings within their range, thereby, bringing vector fleas into close contact with humans and their pets. Credit: CDC.

This image shows the process of sediment deposition and was taken during construction. The dredged sediments are left to settle and and lose water before being used to construct the marsh platform. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Heavy equipment places the boulders that were used to construct the fish pools. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Figure 61. Richard bottle (1940 model) devised by Dr. Jules Richard, Director of the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco, and constructed by Charles Calleri, at that time the museum's instrument maker. This bottle did not represent a step forward, but instead was an example of using material's at hand to construct a sampling device during the difficult days of WW II. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Volunteers construct steps on the trail at McGowen Creek. Credit: Jill Williams.

Crew members construct trail. Credit: D. Huntington.

Interior, looking north. Photograph by Jet Lowe, May 1985. (Reproduction Number: HAER OHIO,77-AKRO,6-18) Built by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 1929, this cavernous structure was used for the construction and repair of zeppelins. Eleven steel parabolic arches, 221 feet high, support the airdock without additional interior columns, creating one of the largest open interior spaces in the world. This view shows the complicated system of overhead cranes and catwalks used to construct zeppelins, along with the huge curved door for moving zeppelins in and out of the airdock. The Goodyear Airdock calls to mind the great age of lighter-than-air aviation in the 1920s. Credit: Library of Congress.

In rear areas, the engineers work continually to construct, maintain, and improve semipermanent housing for troops and supplies. This building is being built by the 76th Engineer Construction Battalion in Pusan, Korea. South Korean civilians are employed. Credit: Library of Congress.

Leningrad inhabitants, including women of all ages, under the leadership of Petrov, a munition worker, using shovels and picks to help construct anti-tank ditches in answer to the call to defend their city to the last during the Siege of Leningrad. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Germany is forbidden to maintain or construct any fortifications either on the left bank of the Rhine or on the right bank to the west of a line drawn 50 kilometres to the East of the Rhine. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We do not profess to construct planets

Moreover, the waves, I suspect, do not so much construct as wear down a material which has already acquired consistency

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Axons must construct the highly specialized structures that release neurotransmitters from nerve terminals. (references)

Axons and their targets must then interact to construct synapses, the specialized structures that act as the functional connections between nerve cells. (references)

MRI gives better pictures of tumors located near bone than CT, does not use radiation as CT does, and provides pictures from various angles that can enable doctors to construct a three-dimensional image of the tumor. (references)

Business

Construct port infrastructure on the Katowicki Peninsula. (references)

Local governments are planning to construct photovoltaic power generation facilities on Korea's remote islands. (references)

These companies have signed an interim agreement to jointly develop, design, construct and operate the proposed pipeline. (references)

Children

Botswana

It also continued to allocate a large part of its investment expenditures to construct primary and secondary schools, so children have ready access to education. (references)

Luxembourg

The law does not directly mandate accessibility for persons with disabilities, but the Government pays subsidies to builders to construct "disabled-friendly" structures. (references)

Civil Liberties

Central African Republic

Religious organizations and missionary groups are free to proselytize, worship, and construct places of worship. (references)

Economic History

Uae

The UAE is involved in a GCC plan to construct a unified power grid. (references)

China

U.S. companies have sold equipment to construct SARFT's cable TV network. (references)

Turkey

The contract to construct Filyos, forty kilometers from Zonguldak, was signed this year. (references)

Human Rights

Chile

These prisons are part of a plan to construct 10 new prisons in the next several years, to house an initial population of 16,000 prisoners. (references)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

In addition to a lack of resources, adequate training and personnel, government officials said that there are no funds available to construct a new prison. (references)

Burma

According to one report from the Karen National Union (KNU), at least 200 prisoners from the Tavoy jail in Tenasserim Division were conscripted by the army as laborers to construct a front-line camp. (references)

Minorities

Ethiopia

In 1999 two Muslim communities in the Dire Dawa and north Welo areas attempted to construct new mosques but abandoned the construction when local Orthodox church members caused damage to the construction sites and beat one Muslim who tried to prevent their actions. (references)

Political Economy

HAITI

The Haitian dollar, an artificial construct and not an actual unit of currency, is worth five gourdes. (references)

FINLAND

In March 1999, four telecommunications companies were granted licenses to construct 3G mobile networks in Finland. (references)

Travel

Qatar

To cope with the increasing passenger and freight traffic (16 percent increase in 1997-98) the Government plans to construct a new large airport facility adjacent to the present one. (references)

Worker Rights

Burma

There also were reports that the Government used forced labor to construct infrastructure to support tourism. (references)

Burma

Beginning in February 2000, residents from the townships of Monywa, Kane, Min Kin, and Kalewa in Sagaing Division were forced to construct a new road along the Chindwin River from Monywa to Kalewa. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "construct": construct badly ♦ Construct form ♦ construct state ♦ Personal Construct Theory ♦ re construct. Additional references.

Ending with "construct": re-construct.

Albanian

vizatoj (depict, describe, design, draw, impaste), ndërtoj (build, carve, engineer, erect, make, put up, raise, rear, set up, throw up, upbuild, work up), formoj (constitute, create, form, found, make, make up, Mold, mould, organize, shape). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), ‏أنشأ (cradle, evolve, fabricate, father, form, foster, found, founder, germinate, institute, nurture, organize, originate, plant, start, structure, work up), ‏ركب (assemble, compact, compose, fabricate, frame, mount, prepare, put together, ride, rig up, set, set up, straddle, superimpose), ‏رتب (arrange, clean, collocate, corral, dispose, do, form, hierarchy, lash up, line, marshal, ordain, order, pack, pigeonhole, plume, put in order, put things straight, range, rate, set, shape, sort, spruce up, stow, straighten, tidy, trim), ‏شيد (cite, elevate, erect, praise, put up, raise, structure, tribute, whitewash), ‏بنى (build, erect, make, mason, put up, rear, structure). (various references)

Bulgarian 

строя (build, engineer, fabricate), чертая (delineate, describe, draw, figure, line, plan, plot, protract), градя, построявам (build, erect, frame, make, pyramid, rear, throw a bridge, upbuild), изграждам (build, make, upbuild). (various references)

Catalan

construir (build). (various references)

Chinese 

興建 (build), 建� (build), 建築 (building), 修建 (Constructed, Constructing). (various references)

Czech

vytvořit (build, create, fashion, forge, formulate, institute, model, produce, throw up), sestrojit (build), postavit (build, contrast, erect, field, found, pitch, place, put, put up, raise, rear, right, set, state), konstruovat (fabricate), budovat. (various references)

Danish

bygge (build). (various references)

Dutch

construeren (build), bouwen (build, build from wood), aanleggen (aim, build, install, level, take aim). (various references)

Esperanto

konstrui (build). (various references)

Faeroese

smíða (build, forge), gera (achieve, act, activate, build, carry out, cause, do, form, get, give rise to, make, perform, shape, take action), byggja (build). (various references)

Finnish

rakentaa (build, erect). (various references)

French

construire, bâtir. (various references)

Frisian

konstruearje (build). (various references)

German

konstruieren (build, construe, engineer, to construe, to design), Konstrukt, gestalten (arrange, configure, dress, fashion, form, gestalts, guises, lay out, Mold, shape, shapes, statures, structure, style, to fashion, to frame, to pattern, to shape), einrichten (adapt, aim, arrange, equip, establish, fit out, fix, fix up, furnish, install, institute, locate, open, organize, reset, set, set up, start), bauen (build, building, cause, cultivate, erect, erection, lay, locate, make, open up, to build, to build (built), aufbauen (assemble, base, be based, build, build on, build up, establish, fix up, get up, lay out, organize, promote, put together, put up, rebuild, set up, structure, to build (up), to build up, to synthesize). (various references)

Greek 

κατασκευάζω (fabricate, make, malt, manufacture), χτίζω (build, to build), οικοδομώ (build). (various references)

Hebrew 

לב� ות (build, establish, fabricate, form, make). (various references)

Hungarian

épít (build, built, to build, to engineer, to put up, to raise, to throw out, to wattle). (various references)

Icelandic

smíða (build), byggja (build). (various references)

Indonesian

membangun (build, constructive, develop, rise), konsepsi. (various references)

Italian

costruire (build, create, make, rear). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

コンシューマ製�"� (concentration, concentrator, concentric, concept, concept advertisement, conception, conceptual art, concessionary chain, consensus, consent, conservatoire, console, console type, consomme, consortium, constant, constellation system, constitution, constraint, constructor, consumer goods, consumer products, control strip, electrical outlet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

コンストラクト . (various references)

Korean 

구조물. (various references)

Manx

troggal (arise, boost, breed, breeding, bring off, bringing up, build, building, buzz off, contract, contract as disease, contraction, development, edifice, elaborate, elaboration, elevate, freshen, freshen of wind, gather up, getting up, harvest, heave, heave as shoulders, hoist, input, invoke, lift, lifting, nurture, pick off; absorption, pick up, pull in, put up, raise, raise up, rally, rear, rearing, rig up, rise, set in rows, sing up, structure, take, train, train as child, winch, wind, winding), jannoo (accomplish, accomplishment, act, build, cast, coalesce, commit, committal, compose, conferment, conformation, construction, create, deal, deed, do, effect, execute, fabricate, fashion, fend, fill, follow out, formation, goings on, keep, make, manufacture, perform, performance, performing, perpetrate, perpetration, persuance, practise, produce, production, render; doing, structure, style, transact, transaction, transactions), cur ry-cheilley (assemblage, assemble, associate, clump, combine, compile, connect, connotation, consolidate, consolidation, evolve, incorporate, keep together, reconcile, relate, sum, teamwork). (various references)

Norwegian

bygge (build). (various references)

Papiamen

konstruí (build). (various references)

Pig Latin

onstructcay.(various references)

Polish

budować (build). (various references)

Portuguese

edificar (build, edify, engineer, frame, make, put up, raise), construir (brick, build, construe, engineer, fabricate, frame, hammer out, make, raise, rear, set up). (various references)

Romanian

construi (build, build up, carry up, design, engineer, erect, fabricate, form, found, frame, make, project, put up, raise, rear). (various references)

Russian 

создавать (build, create, establish, form, found, give rise, make up, shape). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sagraditi (build), nacrtati (draw, limn), konstruisati, izgraditi (build, build up, develop, form, structure, upbuild). (various references)

Spanish

construir (build, drive, erect, frame, put up, rig up, set up, shape), edificar (build, edify, erect, establish, found, improve, raise, upload). (various references)

Sranan

bow (build). (various references)

Swedish

bygga (abide, build, dwell, erect, found, ground, lay down, live, throw), konstruera (construe, design, fabricate, frame, lay down), anlägga (assume, build, found, lay, lay down, set up). (various references)

Turkish

kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), inşa etmek (build, erect, rear), dikmek (bed, bed out, crop, engraft, erect, fix, ingraft, lay down, needle, perk, perk up, plant, post, prick, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rear, rest, rest on, rivet, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, tailor, Upend), düzenlemek (arrange, calendar, collocate, compose, coordinate, dispose, do, do out, draw, draw up, engineer, execute, fix up, forge, form, frame, get things square, get up, give, grade, lay out, line up, methodize, Mount, order, organize, promote, put up, regularize, regulate, scheme, set, set out, shape, stage, string, whack up, work up), çizmek (cross out, depict, describe, draw, groove, limn, line, mark up, picture, plough, plow, rule, scar, score, scratch, set, trace, write off). (various references)

Ukrainian

створювати (build, charter, coin, compose, create, erect, found, mint, originate, produce, raise up), споруджувати (build, cove, edify, engineer, pitch), будувати (build, carry up, erect, frame, put up). (various references)

Welsh

adeiladu (build, edify). (various references)

Zulu

-akha (build). (various references)

dím. (various references)

banû. (various references)

aedifica, aedificabant, aedificabat, aedificabatur, aedificaberis, aedificabimini, aedificabimus, aedificabis, aedificabit, aedificabitis, aedificabitur, aedificabo, aedificabunt, aedificabuntur, aedificamus, aedificanda, aedificandam, aedificandum, aedificans, aedificant, aedificantes, aedificanti, aedificantibus, aedificantium, aedificare, aedificarem, aedificaremus, aedificarent, aedificares, aedificaret, aedificaretis, aedificaretur, aedificari, aedificaris, aedificas, aedificasse, aedificassem, aedificasti, aedificastis, aedificat, aedificata, aedificatae, aedificate, aedificatis, aedificato, aedificator, aedificatum, aedificatur, aedificaturus, aedificatus, aedificaverat, aedificaverint, aedificaveris, aedificaverit, aedificaverunt, aedificaveruntque, aedificavi, aedificavimus, aedificavit, aedificavitque, aedificem, aedificemus, aedificent, aedificentur, aedifices, aedificet, aedificetur, aedifico, commiserat, commiserit, commiserunt, commisi, commisit, commissum, commissura, commissuram, commissuras, committant, committe, committebant, committenda, committentes, committere, committit, committitis, committunt, concinnabat, concinnanda, concinnandas, concinnat, concinnatis, concinnavit, conclude, concludens, concludent, concluderet, concludes, concludi, concluditur, conclusae, concluserant, concluserat, concluserint, concluseris, concluserunt, conclusi, conclusis, conclusisset, conclusisti, conclusit, conclusus, conclususque, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet, conponam, conponamus, conpone, conponens, conponentes, conponere, conponeris, conpones, conponet, conponis, conponunt, conposita, conpositae, conpositam, conpositis, conposito, conpositum, conpositus, conposuerit, conposueritis, conposuerunt, conposuit, conseres, conseretur, conservi, construatur, constructa, constructum, construens, construxerunt, construximus, construxitque, exaedificavit, fabricabantur, fabricabaris, fabricabimus, fabricant, fabricantium, fabricaretur, fabricasti, fabricat, fabricata, fabricatae, fabricatas, fabricati, fabricatione, fabricator, fabricatum, fabricatur, fabricatus, fabricaverunt, fabricavit, fabricet, inconposita, inconpositos, instruam, instruat, instructa, instructi, instructus, instrue, instruebat, instruere, instrueret, instruis, instruite, instruo, instruxerunt, instruxit, moliaris, moliebantur, moliebatur, molimur, molior, molirentur, reaedificabo, structura, structuram, strue, struerent, strues, struxisti, struxit, texo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "construct": constructed, constructible, constructing, construction, constructional, constructionally, constructionist, constructionists, constructions, constructive, constructively, constructiveness, constructivenesses, constructivism, constructivisms, constructivist, constructivists, constructor, constructors, constructs. (additional references)

Words ending with "construct": deconstruct, overconstruct, reconstruct. (additional references)

Words containing "construct": deconstructed, deconstructing, deconstruction, deconstructionist, deconstructionists, deconstructions, deconstructive, deconstructor, deconstructors, deconstructs, misconstruction, misconstructions, nonconstruction, nonconstructions, nonconstructive, overconstructed, overconstructing, overconstructs, preconstructed, reconstructed, reconstructible, reconstructing, reconstruction, reconstructionism, reconstructionisms, reconstructionist, reconstructionists, reconstructions, reconstructive, reconstructor, reconstructors, reconstructs, unconstructed, unconstructive, unreconstructed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Construct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: castrucci, conctruct, constr, constract, constrast, constri, constru, construce, contruct. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: concurs.

-3 letters: concur, cornus, counts, courts, crocus, occurs, strunt, stucco, succor, trouts, tutors.

-4 letters: conus, corns, cornu, count, court, crocs, crust, curns, curst, occur, roust, routs, runts, scorn, scour, scout, snort, snout, stour, stout, strut, stunt, sturt, tonus, torcs, torts, torus, tours, touts, trots, trout, trust, turns, tutor, uncos.

-5 letters: cons, corn, cors, cost.

+1 letter: constructs.

+2 letters: constructed, constructor, counteracts, deconstruct, reconstruct, subcontract.

+3 letters: constructing, construction, constructive, constructors, contractures, cosurfactant, crosscutting, deconstructs, reconstructs, subcontracts.

+4 letters: accouterments, accoutrements, antiscorbutic, constructible, constructions, cosurfactants, crosscuttings, deconstructed, deconstructor, overconstruct, reconstructed, reconstructor, subcontracted, subcontractor, unconstricted, unconstructed.

+5 letters: acculturations, antiscorbutics, constructional, constructively, constructivism, constructivist, contradictious, cotransduction, counteractions, counterattacks, counterpickets, countertactics, deconstructing, deconstruction, deconstructive, deconstructors, electrocutions, overconstructs, preconstructed, reconstructing, reconstruction, reconstructive, reconstructors, reductionistic, subcontracting, subcontractors, unconstructive.