Definition of constructs Constructs
/kʌnstɹʌˈkts/ - [kunstrukts] -
We found 3 definitions of constructs from 2 different sources.
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Wiktionary 
- constructs (Noun)
Plural of construct.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
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| construct - make by combining materials and parts; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer" | ||
| build, make | ||
| create, make create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" | ||
| customise, customize make according to requirements; "customize a car" | ||
| revet face with a layer of stone or concrete or other supporting material so as to retain; "face an embankment" | ||
| dry-wall construct with drywall; "dry-wall the basement of the house" | ||
| lock become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise" | ||
| wattle interlace to form wattle | ||
| frame up, frame make up plans or basic details for; "frame a policy" | ||
| rebuild, reconstruct build again; "The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb" | ||
| groin build with groins; "The ceiling was groined" | ||
| cantilever construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed; "Frank Lloyd Wright liked to cantilever his buildings" | ||
| erect, rear, put up, set up, raise stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds; "The horse reared in terror" | ||
| build develop and grow; "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera" | ||
| corduroy build (a road) from logs laid side by side | ||
| channelise, channelize cause to form a channel; "channelize a stream" | ||
| construct - draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions; "construct an equilateral triangle" | ||
| describe, delineate, line, trace, draw give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack" | ||
| geometry the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces | ||
| construct - create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts; "construct a proof"; "construct an argument" | ||
| create by mental act, create mentally create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands | ||
| construct - create by linking linguistic units; "construct a sentence"; "construct a paragraph" | ||
| create by mental act, create mentally create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands | ||
| construct - put together out of artificial or natural components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"; He manufactured a popular cereal" | ||
| manufacture, fabricate | ||
| make act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies" | ||
| mass-produce produce on a large scale | ||
| raft make into a raft; "raft these logs" | ||
| construct - reassemble mentally; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago" | ||
| reconstruct, retrace | ||
| conjecture, hypothesise, hypothesize, theorise, hypothecate, theorize, speculate, suppose pledge without delivery or title of possession | ||
| etymologise, etymologize construct the history of words | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- construct (v. t.)
To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice. - construct (v. t.)
To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics. - construct (a.)
Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Something built up of distinct parts. -
construct
To create something by combining or assembling materials or parts or by changing it. -
construct
To build or form (something) by assembling parts. -
construct
To make by combining materials and parts. -
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To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery, out of artificial or natural components or parts.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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construct
kon-strukt′, v.t. to build up: to compile: to put together the parts of a thing: to make: to compose.—adj. constructed.—adjs. Construct′able, Construct′ible, able to be constructed.—ns. Construct′er, Construct′or; Construc′tion, the act of constructing: anything piled together, building: manner of forming: (gram.) the arrangement of words in a sentence: interpretation: meaning.—adjs. Construc′tional, pertaining to construction; Construct′ive, capable of constructing: not direct or expressed, but inferred.—adv. Construct′ively.—ns. Construct′iveness, the faculty of constructing; Construct′ure.—Construct state, in Hebrew and other Semitic languages, the state of a noun depending on another noun, which in Aryan languages would be in the genitive case—e.g. House of God—house being in the construct state.—Bear a construction, to allow of a particular interpretation. [L. construĕre, -structum—con, struĕre, to build.]
Part of speech
🔤- construct, verb, present, 1st person singular of construct (infinitive).
- construct, verb (infinitive).
- construct, noun, singular of constructs.
