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Construction is a related term of construct.

Construction is a derived term of construct.



As nouns the difference between construct and construction

is that construct is something constructed from parts while construction is the process of constructing.

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  • Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.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

    construction

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of constructing.
  • Construction is underway on the new bridge.
  • Anything that has been constructed.
  • The engineer marvelled at his construction .
  • The trade of building structures.
  • He had worked in construction all his life.
  • A building, model or some other structure.
  • The office was a construction of steel and glass.
  • (arts) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
  • "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.
  • The manner in which something is built.
  • A thing of simple construction .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}
  • (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
  • The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
  • American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.
  • The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
  • * 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 95:
  • He had considered sending Lucille away to stay with relations. But then people might have put the worst construction on it – might believe she had done something she shouldn't have.
  • (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
  • Synonyms

    * building

    Antonyms

    * destruction

    Derived terms

    * constructionism * constructionist * construction paper * construction site * construction soldier * construction unit * deconstruction * metaconstruction * misconstruction * reconstruction * under construction