Construct vs Struct - What's the difference?
construct | struct |
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.
As nouns the difference between construct and struct
is that construct is something constructed from parts while struct is a data structure, especially one that serves to group a number of fields (in contrast to an object-oriented class with methods) or one that is passed by value rather than by reference.As a verb construct
is to build or form (something) by assembling 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- Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.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.
