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Construct vs Conceptualisation - What's the difference?

construct | conceptualisation |

As nouns the difference between construct and conceptualisation

is that construct is something constructed from parts while conceptualisation is the act of conceptualising, or something conceptualised.

As a verb construct

is to build or form (something) by assembling parts.

construct

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something constructed from parts.
    • The artwork was a construct of wire and tubes.
    Loops and conditional statements are constructs in computer programming.
  • A concept or model.
    • Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.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, representation

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
    • We constructed the radio from spares.
  • Similarly, to build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
    • A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.
  • * (Marita Sturken)
    • 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.
  • (geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
    • Construct a circle that touches each vertex of the given triangle.

    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

    * reconstruct

    Related terms

    * construction * constructible * constructive * construe

    External links

    * * * (Construct) English heteronyms

    conceptualisation

    English

    Alternative forms

    * conceptualization

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of conceptualising, or something conceptualised
  • * {{quote-book, 2005, Paul Dresch, Monarchies and Nations citation
    • , passage=In this sense, ethnocracy as a socio-political regime is outcome of ethnonationalism, that brand of nationalism that views the nation as a "natural" and ethnically "pure" community, as opposed to its liberal conceptualisation as a community based on equal rights and duties.}}