Meaning

noun an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

verb make by combining materials and parts

verb put together out of artificial or natural components or parts; ; ; He manufactured a popular cereal"

originBorrowed from Latin cōnstrūctus, from cōnstruō (“to heap together”), from com- (“together”) + struō (“to heap up, pile”). Doublet of construe.

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