different between concept vs construct

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipi? (“to take in, conceive”). Doublet of conceit. See conceive.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n.s?pt/

Noun

concept (plural concepts)

1. An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
2. Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
   • Frege's concepts are very nearly propositional functions in the modern sense. Frege explicitly recognizes them as functions. Like Peirce's rhema, a concept is unsaturated. They are in some sense incomplete. Although Frege never gets beyond the metaphorical in his description of the incompleteness of concepts and other functions, one thing is clear: the distinction between objects and functions is the main division in his metaphysics. There is something special about functions that makes them very different from objects.
3. (generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.

Synonyms

• conception
• notion
• abstraction

Hyponyms

• conceptualization, conceptualisation, conceptuality
• notion
• scheme
• rule, regulation
• property, attribute, dimension
• abstraction, abstract
• quantity
• part, section, division
• whole
• law, natural law, law of nature
• hypothesis
• possibility
• theory
• fact
• rule

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Verb

concept (third-person singular simple present concepts, present participle concepting, simple past and past participle concepted)

1. to conceive; to dream up

Further reading

• concept in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• concept in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• concept on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Concept in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?pt/
• Hyphenation: con?cept

Noun

concept n (plural concepten, diminutive conceptje n)

1. concept
2. draft, sketch

Derived terms

• conceptversie

Descendants

• Afrikaans: konsep
• ? Indonesian: konsep

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conceptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.s?pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt
• Homophone: concepts

Noun

concept m (plural concepts)

1. concept

Synonyms

• connaissance
• idée
• notion

Related terms

• concepteur
• conception
• conceptualiser
• conceptualisation
• conceptuel
• conceptuellement
• concevoir

Further reading

• “concept” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French concept, Latin conceptus.

Noun

concept n (plural concepte)

1. concept

Declension

Related terms

• concepe
• concepere
• conceptibil
• conceptibilitate
• conceptism
• conceptual
• conceptualism
• conceptualist
• conceptualiza
• conceptualizat
• conceptualizare
• concep?ie
• concep?ional

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin constructus, from construo (“I heap together, build, make, construct, connect grammatically”), from com- (“together”) + struo (“I heap up, pile”). Doublet of construe.

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK) enPR: k?n'str?kt, IPA^(key): /?k?n.st??kt/
• (US) enPR: kän'str?kt, IPA^(key): /?k?n.st??kt/

Verb

• (UK, US) enPR: k?n-str?kt', IPA^(key): /k?n?st??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

construct (plural constructs)

1. Something constructed from parts.

2. A concept or model.

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

Synonyms

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

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Translations

Verb

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.

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

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

• deconstruct
• overconstruct
• reconstruct
• unconstruct

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Translations

Further reading

• construct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• construct in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• construct at OneLook Dictionary Search