"construct" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

construct sustantivo

verbo + construct
Kolokacji: 3
use constructs • create constructs • construct measured
adjetivo + construct
Kolokacji: 25
social construct • artificial construct • theoretical construct • mental construct • cultural construct • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
(1) social, cultural, human
Kolokacji: 3
(2) artificial, fictional
Kolokacji: 2
(3) theoretical, hypothetical
Kolokacji: 2
(5) similar, different
Kolokacji: 2
(6) legal, logical
Kolokacji: 2
(7) new, basic
Kolokacji: 2
(9) genetic, related
Kolokacji: 2
1. philosophical construct = filozoficzna konstrukcja philosophical construct
2. literary construct = literacka konstrukcja literary construct
  • Perhaps a gentle reminder for promiscuous Tory rakes that Sir Harry Paget Flashman is a fictional character, and his world is a literary construct.
  • Unfortunately, Haynes overreaches for some characters, building literary constructs instead.
  • Unsworth's Iphigenia approaches her sacrificial altar more as a literary construct than as a real girl.
  • "But he's just a literary construct," John repeated doggedly.
  • But that's a literary construct.
  • David Lanoue maintained in 2005 that 'our image of Issa is a consciously designed literary construct...earthy, compassionate, child-and-animal loving, unconcerned about appearances or public rituals or wordly power'.
  • Four of these, he argued, represented witches who were "little more than literary constructs", owing more to the folk tales of the time than to any actual magical practitioners.
  • The invention of the matrix, even as a literary construct, marks the birth of cyberpunk fiction.
  • "We were getting away from the giant cabinet-of-curiosities approach to the idea of a good yarn, using literary and theatrical constructs," said Mr. Appelbaum.
  • Ziolkowski continued: "All in all, however, the story remains a lifeless literary construct.
3. elaborate construct = skomplikowana konstrukcja elaborate construct
preposición + construct
Kolokacji: 5
of constructs • in constructs • with constructs • to constructs • for constructs

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