different between fabricate vs construct

English

Etymology

From Latin fabric?tus, perfect passive participle of fabricor, fabric? (“build, forge”), from fabrica (“a fabric, building, etc.”); see fabric and forge. Compare with French fabrique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæb.??.ke?t/

Verb

fabricate (third-person singular simple present fabricates, present participle fabricating, simple past and past participle fabricated)

1. (transitive) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.

   to fabricate a bridge or ship

2. (transitive) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.

   to fabricate computer chips

3. (transitive) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.

   to fabricate a lie or story

4. (transitive, cooking) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.

Synonyms

• manufacture, cook up, make up, trump up, invent

Related terms

• fabrication
• fabricator

Translations

Further reading

• fabricate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fabricate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Verb

fabric?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of fabric?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin constructus, from construo (“I heap together, build, make, construct, connect grammatically”), from com- (“together”) + struo (“I heap up, pile”). Doublet of construe.

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK) enPR: k?n'str?kt, IPA^(key): /?k?n.st??kt/
• (US) enPR: kän'str?kt, IPA^(key): /?k?n.st??kt/

Verb

• (UK, US) enPR: k?n-str?kt', IPA^(key): /k?n?st??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

construct (plural constructs)

1. Something constructed from parts.

2. A concept or model.

3. (genetics) A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or tissue.

Synonyms

• (something constructed from parts): construction
• (concept, model): concept, idea, model, notion, representation

Related terms

Translations

Verb

construct (third-person singular simple present constructs, present participle constructing, simple past and past participle constructed)

1. (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.

2. (transitive) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
   • 1997, Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories

     The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings, to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.

3. (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.

Synonyms

• (build or form by assembling parts'): assemble, build, form, make, produce, put together
• (build (a sentence or argument)): form
• (draw (a geometric figure)):

Antonyms

• (build or form by assembling parts): destroy, disassemble, dismantle, ruin, wreck, take apart

Derived terms

• deconstruct
• overconstruct
• reconstruct
• unconstruct

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• construct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• construct in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• construct at OneLook Dictionary Search