cultural construct

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construct | American Dictionary

construct
verb[ T ]
us/kənˈstrʌkt/
to build something made of many parts:
They approved funds to construct a new ferry terminal.
To construct is also to put together different parts to form something new:
to construct a sentence
to construct a new economic theory

construct | Business English

construct
verb[ T ]
uk /kənˈstrʌkt/us
to build something large such as a building, road, or bridge:
The group is constructing a $150 million medical school building.
to put the different parts of something together in order to make it:
It's a company which constructs circuit boards for mobile phones.
We aim to construct an investment portfolio which will reflect the investment aims of the client.

Examples of construct

construct
We constructed the phase diagram, which can include a microphase-separated region and a micro-phase separated glass.
The following remarks describe how the total ordering is constructed (see also the summary diagram in (24) below).
The method of constructing the adiabatic invariant has been previously discussed in [7].
To keep track of our runs without constantly needing to refer to their parameters, we have constructed a simple notational scheme.
Other constructs that are moderately high are the impact of the illness on intimacy, and worries about loss of dignity.
Firstly, how relations between states, international organizations and indigenous peoples have been and are currently constructed as legal and political practices?
The anomalous sen tences are constructed by manipulating the relationship between the object noun\\target word (' guitar ' in these examples) and its preceding verb.
Latent factors were established for each of these constructs to allow investigation of relationships free of measurement error.
The stable support condition for a mobile robot is constructed not only in a polygonal support region, but also in a polyhedral support region.
Of course, we will need to modify the notion of model to cope with these additional constructs.
Since the objects were constructed from a class/struct that owns a next field, objects have next-labelled arcs.
A transducer of this form can be constructed by translating hyphenation rules or patterns into a finite state transducer or sequence of transducers.
We consider the choices that the application must make in constructing this input.
Each classifier constructs a hyperplane, which demarcates one specific class from all the other classes.
A dotted line specifies a hierarchical structure of a dependency graph constructed from a template.
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Collocations withconstruct

construct

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cultural construct
To him, nationalism is an independent culturalconstruct and not just an epiphenomenon in the process of capitalist development.
latent construct
Three measures derived from this questionnaire were used to collectively index the latentconstruct deprived care prior to adoption.
linguistic construct
Dative alternation is but one example of a linguistic construct that must be learned over and above image schemas.
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