| construct | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: concept, conception |
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| (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: reconstruct, retrace |
| (verb) draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, make |
| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: fabricate, manufacture |
| (verb) create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts | - |
| (verb) create by linking linguistic units | - |
| construction | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: building |
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| (noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: building |
| (noun) drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem | - |
| (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | Synonyms: structure |
| (noun) the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought | Synonyms: mental synthesis |
| (noun) an interpretation of a text or action | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: expression, grammatical construction |
| constructive | (adjective) constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development | - |
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| (adjective) emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good | - |
| constructively | (adverb) in a constructive manner | - |
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| constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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| constructivism | (noun) an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects | - |
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| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| constructor | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: builder |
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| deconstruct | (verb) interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing | - |
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| deconstruction | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstructionism |
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| deconstructionism | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstruction |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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| destruct | (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) destroy (one's own missile or rocket) | - |
| destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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| destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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| destruction | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: devastation |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, wipeout |
| (noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, end |
| destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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| destructively | (adverb) in a destructive manner | - |
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| destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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| eruct | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, burp |
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| (verb) eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical | Synonyms: spew, spew out |
| eructation | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burp, burping |
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| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eruption, extravasation |
| fructification | (noun) organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses) | - |
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| (noun) the bearing of fruit | - |
| fructify | (verb) produce fruit | Synonyms: set |
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| (verb) become productive or fruitful | - |
| (verb) make productive or fruitful | - |
| fructose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose |
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| fructosuria | (noun) the presence of levulose is the urine | - |
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| indestructibility | (noun) the strength to resist destruction | - |
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| indestructible | (adjective) not easily destroyed | - |
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| (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: durable, perdurable, undestroyable |
| infrastructure | (noun) the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area | Synonyms: base |
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| (noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: substructure |
| infructescence | (noun) the fruiting stage of the inflorescence | - |
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| instruct | (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: learn, teach |
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| (verb) give instructions or directions for some task | - |
| (verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| instruction | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: pedagogy, teaching |
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| (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, pedagogy, teaching |
| (noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: command, program line, statement |
| (noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: direction |
| instructional | (adjective) of or relating to or used in instruction | - |
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| instructions | (noun) a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it | Synonyms: book of instructions, instruction manual, operating instructions |
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| instructive | (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: informative |
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| instructively | (adverb) in an informative manner | Synonyms: informatively |
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| instructor | (noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: teacher |
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| instructorship | (noun) the position of instructor | - |
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| instructress | (noun) a woman instructor | - |
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| misconstruction | (noun) an ungrammatical constituent | - |
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| (noun) a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) | Synonyms: misconstrual |
| nonstructural | (adjective) not structural | - |
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| obstruct | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obturate, occlude |
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| (verb) shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight | Synonyms: block |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, stymie, stymy |
| obstructed | (adjective) shut off to passage or view or hindered from action | - |
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| obstructer | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstruction, obstructor |
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| (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructionist, obstructor, resister, thwarter |
| obstruction | (noun) getting in someone's way | - |
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| (noun) the act of obstructing | - |
| (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstructor |
| (noun) something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted | Synonyms: obstacle |
| (noun) the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction | Synonyms: blockage |
| obstructionism | (noun) deliberate interference | - |
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| obstructionist | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructor, resister, thwarter |
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| obstructive | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, hindering, impeding |
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| obstructively | (adverb) in an obstructive manner | Synonyms: hinderingly |
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| obstructor | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction |
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| (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, resister, thwarter |
| reconstruct | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: redo, remodel |
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| (verb) cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically | - |
| (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: construct, retrace |
| (verb) build again | Synonyms: rebuild |
| (verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: restore |
| reconstructed | (adjective) adapted to social or economic change | - |
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| reconstruction | (noun) the activity of constructing something again | - |
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| (noun) recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall | Synonyms: reconstructive memory |
| (noun) an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence | - |
| reconstructive | (adjective) helping to restore to good condition | Synonyms: rehabilitative |
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| restructure | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: reconstitute |
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| ruction | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: commotion, din, ruckus, rumpus, tumult |
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| structural | (adjective) relating to or having or characterized by structure | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure | - |
| (adjective) relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals | Synonyms: morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study | - |
| (adjective) affecting or involved in structure or construction | - |
| structuralism | (noun) linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse | Synonyms: structural linguistics |
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| (noun) an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena | Synonyms: structural anthropology |
| (noun) a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals | Synonyms: structural sociology |
| structurally | (adverb) with respect to structure | - |
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| structure | (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | Synonyms: construction |
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| (noun) the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts | - |
| (noun) a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement | Synonyms: anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part |
| (noun) the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations | - |
| (noun) the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships | Synonyms: social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system |
| (verb) give a structure to | - |
| structured | (adjective) having definite and highly organized structure | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a living organism in organization or development | Synonyms: integrated |
| substructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, understructure |
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| (noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: infrastructure |
| superstructure | (noun) structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck | - |
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| unconstructive | (adjective) not constructive | - |
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| understructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure |
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| uninstructed | (adjective) lacking information or instruction | Synonyms: naive, unenlightened |
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| uninstructive | (adjective) failing to instruct | - |
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| uninstructively | (adverb) in an uninformative manner | Synonyms: uninformatively |
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| unobstructed | (adjective) free from impediment or obstruction or hindrance | - |
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| unreconstructed | (adjective) adhering to an attitude or position widely held to be outmoded | - |
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| unstructured | (adjective) lacking definite structure or organization | - |
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| (adjective) lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies | Synonyms: amorphous |
| usufruct | (noun) a legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way | - |
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| usufructuary | (adjective) of or relating to the nature of a usufruct | - |
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| (noun) someone who holds property by usufruct | - |