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construct verb

• build or make (something, typically a building, road, or machine).
• "a company that constructs oil rigs"
Similar: build, erect, put up, set up, raise, establish, assemble, manufacture, fabricate, form, fashion, contrive, create, make,
Opposite: demolish,

construct noun

• 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"
Origin: late Middle English: from Latin construct- ‘heaped together, built’, from the verb construere, from con- ‘together’ + struere ‘pile, build’.


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