Synthesize vs Construct - What's the difference?
synthesize | construct |
To combine two or more things to produce a new, more complex product.
(of two or more things) To be combined producing a new, more complex product.
(chemistry) To produce a substance by chemical synthesis.
(intransitive, chemistry, of a substance) To be produced by chemical synthesis.
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.
In transitive terms the difference between synthesize and construct
is that synthesize is to combine two or more things to produce a new, more complex product while construct is similarly, to build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.As a noun construct is
something constructed from parts.synthesize
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Alternative forms
* synthesise (UK)Verb
(synthesiz)Derived terms
* photosynthesizeconstruct
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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- Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.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.