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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build, produce |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, assemble, carve, cast, cobble, complete, compose, construct, create, execute, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, fudge together, machine, make, make up, mass-produce, mill, mold, prefab, process, put together, shape, synthesize, throw together, tool, turn out |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | manufacture/manufacturing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | production of processed goods |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, assembling, assembly, casting, completion, composing, composition, construction, creation, doing, erection, fabrication, finishing, forging, formation, making, mass-production, preparing, produce, tooling |
| Main Entry: | assemble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put together |
| Synonyms: | compile, connect, construct, contrive, erect, fabricate, fashion, fit, form, join, make, manufacture, model, mold, piece together, produce, set up, shape, unite, weld |
| Antonyms: | divide, separate, take apart |
| Main Entry: | assembly |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | putting together |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, attachment, building, collection, connecting, construction, erection, fabrication, fitting together, joining, manufacture, manufacturing, modeling, molding, piecing together, setting up, shaping, welding |
| Main Entry: | build |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | construct structure |
| Synonyms: | assemble, bring about, carpenter, cast, compile, compose, contrive, engineer, erect, evolve, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, frame, jerry-build, knock together, make, manufacture, model, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, reconstruct, sculpture, set up, superstruct, synthesize, throw together, throw up |
| Notes: | billed is having a beak or having been presented a statement of costs or charges, while build is to construct |
| Antonyms: | demolish, destroy, dismantle, knock down, raze, ruin, take down |
| Main Entry: | coin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, invent |
| Synonyms: | brainstorm*, compose, conceive, contrive, counterfeit, dream up, fabricate, forge, formulate, frame, head trip, make up, make up off the top of one's head, manufacture, mint, mold, originate, spark, spitball, stamp, strike, think up, trump up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | construct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, build |
| Synonyms: | build up, cobble up, compose, compound, constitute, cook up, create, design, dream up, elevate, engineer, envision, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, found, frame, fudge together, hammer out, hoke up, imagine, invent, make, manufacture, organize, prefab, produce, put out, put together, put up, raise, rear, set up, shape, throw together, throw up, trump up, uprear, whip up |
| Antonyms: | annihilate, break, demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, ruin |
| Main Entry: | construction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, building |
| Synonyms: | architecture, arrangement, assembly, build, cast, composition, conception, constitution, contour, cut, development, disposition, edifice, elevation, erecting, erection, fabric, fabricating, fabrication, figuration, figure, form, format, formation, foundation, improvisation, invention, makeup, making, manufacture, mold, origination, outline, plan, planning, prefab, prefabrication, putting up, raising, rearing, roadwork, shape, structure, system, systematization, turn, type |
| Antonyms: | destruction, disfigurement, disorganization, ruin, ruins |
| Main Entry: | contrive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | invent, design |
| Synonyms: | come up with, concoct, construct, cook up, create, devise, dream up, engineer, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, frame*, handle, hatch, improvise, make, make up*, manipulate, manufacture, move, plan, plot, project, rig, scheme, throw together, trump up, vamp, wangle, whip up |
| Antonyms: | disorganize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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