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Constructs

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Constructs 

in linguistics, concepts about generally unobservable linguistic objects, the opposite of elementary concepts —concepts about observable objects. An example of a construct is the phoneme; an example of an elementary concept is a class of speech sounds. Constructs are used as elements in forming an abstract theoretical system (in contrast to elementary concepts.)



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He constructs a definite plan for the betterment of that particular family out of the resources that they have.
Circumstances had long forced her, as they force most women in the flower of youth, to consider, painfully and minutely, all that part of life which is conspicuously without order; she had had to consider moods and wishes, degrees of liking or disliking, and their effect upon the destiny of people dear to her; she had been forced to deny herself any contemplation of that other part of life where thought constructs a destiny which is independent of human beings.
The private characteristics of the several clerks often crop out in their method of settling themselves at their desks,--the chilly one has a wooden footstool under his feet; the man with a bilious temperament has a metal mat; the lymphatic being who dreads draughts constructs a fortification of boxes on a screen.
 
 
 
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