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1. Make by combining materials and parts
   "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer";
   - build, make
    
2. Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
   "They construct small toys";
   - manufacture, fabricate
    
3. (geometry) draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions
   "construct an equilateral triangle"
    
4. Create by linking linguistic units
   "construct a sentence"; "construct a paragraph"
    
5. Create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts
   "construct a proof"; "construct an argument"
    
6. Reassemble mentally
   "construct the events of 20 years ago";
   - reconstruct, retrace

1. An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
   - concept, conception

Derived forms: constructs, constructed, constructing

Type of: conjecture, create, create by mental act, create mentally, delineate, describe, draw, hypothecate, hypothesise [Brit], hypothesize, idea, line, make, speculate, suppose, theorise [Brit], theorize, thought, trace

Encyclopedia: Construct