construct
IPA: kʌnstrˈʌkt
noun
- Something constructed from parts.
- A concept or model.
- (genetics) A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or tissue.
verb
- (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
- (transitive) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
- (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
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Examples of "construct" in Sentences
- The construct is very clever and incredibly artificial, which is pretty much the 30 Rock norm.
- The title construct is a traveling show, headed by Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer), and including his daughter Valentina (Lily Cole) and his various employees.
- The term construct is also used to describe it, because the virus is constructed of parts and pieces of genetic code-it is a designer virus, with a particular purpose. "
- Crucially, at the heart of this construct is the Commission, comprised of appointed technocrats ruling as benign Platonic guardians, protecting the interests of all the peoples of Europe.
- What Grodin and De Niro construct is a believable friendship that grows organically out of the story, is organic to their characters, and reveals itself to be totally complementary in every way.
- The president of the United States, Barack Obama, and his team, since he came into office and had to deal with financial crisis, has been dealing out of an exclusively Keynesian construct, which is to say, you create, or try to create, an enormous amount of demand to raise the economy.
- Granted, the "36 arguments" construct is used as a structural element, incorporated literally in the form of a series of propositions and their refutations as the novel's concluding section and metaphorically by providing the novel's chapter titles, but otherwise this novel presents few surprises either formally or thematically, proceeding as a garden-variety academic satire complete with bursting egos, pretentious-sounding projects, and fierce political in-fighting.
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