construct

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
“
This sort of a construct is anathema to the American experience, but typical of Marxist and Fascist political thought.

View all »
Definitions (25)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (6)

  1. transitive verb To form by assembling or combining parts; build.
  2. transitive verb To create (an argument or a sentence, for example) by systematically arranging ideas or terms.
  3. transitive verb Mathematics To draw (a geometric figure) that meets specific requirements.
3 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (10)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (7)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • A source at Porsche told Reuters that such a construct could be a possible option for Scania as well. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • It's a profound notion, and visualizing such a construct is an enormous undertaking. —  SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
  • That is because the law that inspires and underlies his construct is the indirect kind of the European Union and of the United Nations. —  Claremont.org
  • This construct is the declarative equivalent to the —  Latest News from SYS-CON ITALIA
  • The LHC cost $8 billion to construct, and that doesn't include paying for police protection for the scientists who have received death threats from people who think that mad scientists are secretly out to destroy us all. —  THE IRATE NATION
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 221 times.

1 person has marked this word as a favorite.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Used in the same contextWord Family

construct:   constructing ·  constructed ·  constructs
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Latin cōnstruere, cōnstrūct- : com-, com- + struere, to pile up; see ster-2 in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Latin constructus, past participle of construere (later Italian costruire, construire = Sp, Portuguese construire = Provencal F. construire (later D. konstrueren = German construiren = Danish konstruere = Sw, konstruera); cf. construe), heap together, build, make, construct, connect grammatically (see construe), later com-, together, + struere, heap up, pile: see structure.
  2. from Latin constructus, past participle: see the verb.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈkɑnstrəkt/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a week.

Recently looked up

beatbox · rubbish · gem · joint · Fairchild's

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Glockenspiel · Ersatz · Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid · Haifischschwanzflossenfleischsuppe · Der Kottbusser Postkutscher putzt den Kottbusser Postkutschkasten