Methodize and Construct
(v.t.) To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances.
- synonyms: concept, conception
verb
- Make by combining materials and parts.
- usage: "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"
- Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts.
- usage: "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"; He manufactured a popular cereal"
- synonyms: manufacture, fabricate
- Draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions.
- usage: "construct an equilateral triangle"
- Create by linking linguistic units.
- usage: "construct a sentence"; "construct a paragraph"
- Create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts.
- usage: "construct a proof"; "construct an argument"
- Reassemble mentally.
- usage: "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago"
- synonyms: reconstruct, retrace
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics.
- (a.) Formed by or relating to, construction, interpretation or inference.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary