different between construct vs composite
construct
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)
- Something constructed from parts.
- A concept or model.
- (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
Related terms
Translations
Verb
construct (third-person singular simple present constructs, present participle constructing, simple past and past participle constructed)
- (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
- (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.
- 1997, Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories
- (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
Related terms
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
construct From the web:
- what construction is going on near me
- what construction type is a metal building
- what construction trade pays the most
- what construction workers do
- what construction jobs pay the most
- what constructs proteins
- what construction type is my house
- what constructs social class
composite
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French composite, from Latin compositus, past participle of comp?n? (“put together”). Doublet of compost.
Pronunciation
- (Canada, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?mp?z?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /k?m?p?z?t/
- Rhymes: -?z?t
Adjective
composite (comparative more composite, superlative most composite)
- Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.
- (architecture) Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.
- (mathematics) Having factors other than itself and one; not prime and not one.
- (botany) Belonging to the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.
- (photography, historical) Employing multiple exposures on a single plate, so as to create an average view of something, such as faces in physiognomy.
- composite portraiture; a composite photograph
Derived terms
- composite bow
- composite sketch
- composite sync
Translations
Noun
composite (plural composites)
- A mixture of different components.
- A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.
- (botany) A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae.
- (mathematics) A function of a function.
- (mathematics) Clipping of composite number.
- (chiefly law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, etc. that combines several separate pictures or images.
- (rail transport, Britain) A railway carriage with compartments for two different classes of travel; see Composite Corridor.
Derived terms
- DYC
Translations
See also
- aggregate
- conglomerate
Verb
composite (third-person singular simple present composites, present participle compositing, simple past and past participle composited)
- To make a composite.
- I composited an image using computer software.
Translations
Related terms
French
Etymology
From Middle French, borrowed from Latin compositus. Doublet of compote and compost.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.po.zit/
Noun
composite m (plural composites)
- composite material
Adjective
composite (plural composites)
- composite
Further reading
- “composite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Adjective
composite
- feminine plural of composito
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kom?po.si.te/, [k?m?p?s??t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kom?po.si.te/, [k?m?p??s?it??]
Adjective
composite
- vocative masculine singular of compositus
References
- composite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- composite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- composite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
composite From the web:
- what composite numbers
- what composite number means
- what composite means
- what composites are used in aircraft
- what composite materials
- what composite decking stays cool
- what composite volcanoes
- what composite decking is made of
you may also like
- construct vs composite
- construct vs complex
- constrict vs construct
- construct vs atheory
- construct vs combine
- construct vs compound
- construct vs building
- conceive vs construct
- concieve vs construct
- bild vs form
- determined vs bild
- build vs bulid
- generate vs construct
- cottishaelic vs construct
- construct vs struct
- construct vs establish
- construct vs deconstruct
- construct vs vaginoplasty
- construct vs nanoconstruct
- construct vs declarator