What is another word for piecing together?

Pronunciation: [pˈiːsɪŋ təɡˈɛðə] (IPA)

Piecing together is a phrase that can be used in many contexts. It usually refers to the activity of constructing something from small or scattered parts. Some synonyms for piecing together include assembling, constructing, building, creating, forming, establishing, and setting up. In a more abstract sense, piecing together can also be used to describe the act of understanding or deciphering complex information. For that purpose, synonyms can include deciphering, interpreting, unraveling, decoding, or figuring out. Regardless of the context, piecing together usually involves persistence, patience, and a methodical approach towards solving a puzzle or achieving a goal.

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Famous quotes with Piecing together

  • An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
    Lascelles Abercrombie
  • As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
    Edmund White
  • The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
    H.P. Lovecraft
  • At the conclusion of Hollywood disaster movies and epics, time moves backward, piecing together like a jigsaw the elements that had come apart. The Titanic resumes its journey; Russell Crowe is reunited with his murdered wife and son. It's not a happy ending; it's a convention created for the purposes of an impossible sense of uplift at the end of death and tragedy: the happy beginning. Technology makes Hades unnecessary.
    Amit Chaudhuri
  • I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind.there's more to reality than they have ever confronted.
    Ken Kesey

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