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Noun

• (英国発音) enPR: kŏn'strŭkt, IPA: /ˈkɒn.stɹʌkt/
• (米国発音) enPR: kän'strŭkt, IPA: /ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/

Verb

• (英国発音, 米国発音) enPR: kən-strŭkt', IPA: /kənˈstɹʌkt/
• 韻: -ʌkt

名詞

construct (plural constructs)

1. Something constructed from parts.

   The artwork was a construct of wire and tubes.

   Loops and conditional statements are constructs in computer programming.

2. A concept or model.

   Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.

3. (genetics) A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or tissue.

同意語

• (something constructed from parts): construction
• (concept, model): concept, idea, model, notion, representation

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動詞

construct (third-person singular simple present constructs, present participle constructing, simple past and past participle constructed)

1. (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.

   We constructed the radio from spares.

   A wall constructed of random stones.

   • 1958 September, J. M. Dunn, “The Afonwen Line—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 594:

     The Carnarvonshire Railway was incorporated by an Act of July 29, 1862, with powers to construct a standard-gauge line from the Bangor & Carnarvon at Caernarvon [1958 spelling] to Portmadoc, a distance of 27¾ miles, but only the centre portion, from Penygroes to Afonwen, 11¾ miles, was built.

2. (transitive, grammar) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.

   A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.

   • 1997, Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories:

     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.

3. (transitive, 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.

   • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

     The arc of a circle may be very little, but, given that, it is possible to construct the entire figure.

同意語

• (build or form by assembling parts'): assemble, build, form, make, produce, put together
• (build (a sentence or argument)): form
• (draw (a geometric figure)):

反意語

• (build or form by assembling parts): destroy, disassemble, dismantle, ruin, wreck, take apart

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Further reading

• “construct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “construct”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “construct”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.