construct
verb
Pronunciation: /kənˈstrʌkt/
- build or make (something, typically a building, road, or machine): a company that constructs oil rigs
- form (an idea or theory) by bringing together various conceptual elements: poetics should construct a theory of literary discourse
- Grammar form (a sentence) according to grammatical rules: these rules tell us how to construct a grammatical sentence in a given language
- Geometry draw or delineate (a geometrical figure) accurately to given conditions: construct a square equal in area to a given circle
noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnstrʌkt/
- an idea or theory containing various conceptual elements, typically one considered to be subjective and not based on empirical evidence: history is largely an ideological construct
- Linguistics a group of words forming a phrase: the appropriateness of the grammatical construct is illustrated
- a physical thing which is deliberately built or formed: a transgenic construct
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin construct- 'heaped together, built', from the verb construere, from con- 'together' + struere 'pile, build'