Construct vs Perform - What's the difference?
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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.
To do something; to execute.
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, title= To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.
* Shakespeare
Construct is a related term of perform.
As verbs the difference between construct and perform
is that construct is to build or form (something) by assembling parts while perform is to do something; to execute.As a noun construct
is something constructed from parts.construct
English
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- Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.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.
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 apartDerived terms
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* * * (Construct) English heteronymsperform
English
Verb
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- Perform a part thou hast not done before.