Beget vs Construct - What's the difference?
beget | construct | Related terms |
To cause; to produce.
To father (rarely: to mother); to sire; to produce (a child).
To happen to; befall.
Something constructed from parts.
A concept or model.
To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
Similarly, to build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
* (Marita Sturken)
(geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
Beget is a related term of construct.
As verbs the difference between beget and construct
is that beget is to cause; to produce while construct is to build or form (something) by assembling parts.As a noun construct is
something constructed from parts.beget
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Verb
Quotations
* , Genesis 5:3 *: And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: * {{quote-web, date=2012-02-01 , author=Kathy Gilbert, title=Pitching In, site=Chatter Chattanoogacitation, passage=Rugby football was created in the early 1800s at England’s all-boys Rugby School. The sport begat American football, Gaelic football, Australian rules football and Association football (aka soccer).}}
See also
* sireReferences
* * English irregular verbsconstruct
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Noun
(en noun)- The artwork was a construct of wire and tubes.
- Loops and conditional statements are constructs in computer programming.
- Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.
Synonyms
* (something constructed from parts ): construction * (concept, model ): concept, idea, model, notion, representationVerb
(en verb)- We constructed the radio from spares.
- A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.
- 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.
- Construct a circle that touches each vertex of the given triangle.