Synonyms for construct
kənˈstrʌkt; ˈkɒn strʌkt

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1. constructnoun

   Synonyms:
   notion, concept, representation, model, idea, build, make, assemble, put together, form

   Antonyms:
   destroy, disassemble, dismantle, take apart

2. constructnoun

   To build or form (something) by assembling parts.

   We constructed the radio from spares.

   Synonyms:
   notion, representation, idea, concept, model, build, form, make, assemble, put together

   Antonyms:
   take apart, dismantle, disassemble, destroy

3. constructverb

   Similarly, to build (a sentence or an argument) by arranging words or ideas.

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

   Synonyms:
   representation, notion, concept, idea, model, assemble, form, put together, build, make

   Antonyms:
   disassemble, destroy, take apart, dismantle

4. constructverb

   To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.

   Construct a circle that touches each vertex of the given triangle.

   Synonyms:
   assemble, put together, make, form, build

   Antonyms:
   disassemble, destroy, dismantle, take apart

English Synonyms and Antonyms(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. construct

   Make is essentially causative; to the idea of cause all its various senses may be traced (compare synonyms for CAUSE). To make is to cause to exist, or to cause to exist in a certain form or in certain relations; the word thus includes the idea of create, as in Gen. i, 31, "And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Make includes also the idea of compose, constitute; as, the parts make up the whole. Similarly, to cause a voluntary agent to do a certain act is to make him do it, or compel him to do it, compel fixing the attention more on the process, make on the accomplished fact. Compare COMPEL; DO; INFLUENCE; (make better) AMEND; (make haste) QUICKEN; (make known) ANNOUNCE; AVOW; CONFESS; (make prisoner) ARREST; (make up) ADD; (make void) CANCEL.

   See synonyms for ABOLISH; BREAK; DEMOLISH.

   Synonyms:
   become, bring about, bring into being, bring to pass, cause, compel, compose, constitute, constrain, create, do, effect, establish, execute, fabricate, fashion, force, frame, get, make, make out, make up, manufacture, occasion, perform, reach, render, require, shape

   Preposition:
   Make of, out of, or from certain materials, into a certain form, for a certain purpose or person; made with hands, by hand; made by a prisoner, with a jack-knife.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. construct

   Synonyms:
   compose, build, fabricate, form, erect, invent, frame

   Antonyms:
   derange, destroy, demolish, overthrow

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. concept, conception, constructverb

   an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

   Synonyms:
   excogitation, innovation, concept, creation, design, invention, conception

2. construct, build, makeverb

   make by combining materials and parts

   "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"

   Synonyms:
   earn, create, take in, pass water, piddle, relieve oneself, score, lay down, pull in, progress to, prepare, get, stool, build up, hit, arrive at, cook, cause, attain, fix, establish, seduce, ramp up, urinate, progress, puddle, reach, fabricate, have, pee-pee, pretend, shit, make, pee, get to, throw, retrace, form, gain, micturate, take a shit, reconstruct, realise, work, do, give, crap, manufacture, induce, take a leak, hold, work up, make water, ca-ca, spend a penny, wee, produce, nominate, wee-wee, ready, piss, name, make believe, take a crap, draw, bring in, defecate, clear, constitute, take, realize, stimulate, make up, build

3. manufacture, fabricate, constructverb

   put together out of artificial or natural components or parts

   "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"; He manufactured a popular cereal"

   Synonyms:
   make up, reconstruct, make, cook up, build, invent, retrace, fabricate, manufacture

4. constructverb

   draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions

   "construct an equilateral triangle"

   Synonyms:
   retrace, build, manufacture, make, fabricate, reconstruct

5. constructverb

   create by linking linguistic units

   "construct a sentence"; "construct a paragraph"

   Synonyms:
   retrace, build, manufacture, make, fabricate, reconstruct

6. constructverb

   create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts

   "construct a proof"; "construct an argument"

   Synonyms:
   retrace, build, manufacture, make, fabricate, reconstruct

7. reconstruct, construct, retraceverb

   reassemble mentally

   "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago"

   Synonyms:
   restore, rebuild, trace, manufacture, make, redo, retrace, build, reconstruct, fabricate, remodel

Matched Categories

1. • Create
   • Create By Mental Act
   • Draw
   • Geometry
   • Speculate

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. constructverb

   Synonyms:
   fabricate, build, erect, raise, set up, put together

2. constructverb

   Synonyms:
   organize, institute, arrange, make, form, frame

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1. List of paraphrases for "construct":

   build, construction, building, constructing, constructed, built, vector, erect

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1. John Cohen:

   We need to change the way we deal with these issues and move beyond the 'report and arrest' model to more of a construct of intervention and violence prevention.

2. May Sarton:

   A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

3. John Von Neumann:

   The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

4. Thiruman Archunan:

   By God a man is afraid more of himself than anything else; every day he is struggling to construct a God first to suit him, only then to others.

5. Raul Romeva:

   What Catalan society faces now is the concept of politics as a war by other means, we have a golden opportunity to design and construct a modern state which belongs to the 21st century, which is exemplary and able to defeat wrongdoing and corruption.

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