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Set_up vs Construct - What's the difference?

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Set_up is a related term of construct.


As verbs the difference between set_up and construct

is that set_up is to ready something for use while construct is to build or form (something) by assembling parts.

As an adjective set_up

is in a position to function; ready.

As a noun construct is

something constructed from parts.

set_up

English

Verb

  • To ready something for use.
  • We set up the sprinkler.
  • Logically order.
  • Set up my CD collection.
  • To cause to happen
  • Even a minor change can set up new bugs.
  • To trap or ensnare.
  • I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.
  • Arrange for an outcome ; to tamper or rig.
  • The election was set up !
  • To gel or harden.
  • Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.
  • To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
  • * 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, pp. 286-7:
  • M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame, ‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This set' her ' up for the day.
  • To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
  • (sports) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=John Sinnott , title=Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net.}}
  • (dated) To begin business or a scheme of life.
  • to set up''' in trade; to '''set up for oneself
  • To profess openly; to make pretensions.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Those men who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part.

    Synonyms

    * (to ready ): install, put in, ready, prepare, assemble, configure

    Derived terms

    * set up shop

    Adjective

  • In a position to function; ready.
  • Now that I'm set up , this will take moments!

    Synonyms

    * (In a position to function) prepared, ready

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  • Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.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