Construct vs. Idea — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Construct and Idea
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Construct
To form by assembling or combining parts; build.
Idea
In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are abstract concepts. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object.
Construct
To create (an argument or a sentence, for example) by systematically arranging ideas or terms.
Idea
A thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action
Recently, the idea of linking pay to performance has caught on
It's a good idea to do some research before you go
Construct
(Mathematics) To draw (a geometric figure) that meets specific requirements.
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Idea
The aim or purpose
I took a job with the idea of getting some money together
Construct
Something formed or constructed from parts.
Idea
(in Platonic thought) an eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies.
Construct
A concept, model, or schematic idea
A theoretical construct of the atom.
Idea
Something, such as a thought or conception, that is the product of mental activity.
Construct
A concrete image or idea
"[He] began to shift focus from the haunted constructs of terror in his early work" (Stephen Koch).
Idea
An opinion, conviction, or principle
Has some strange political ideas.
Construct
Something constructed from parts.
The artwork was a construct of wire and tubes.
Loops and conditional statements are constructs in computer programming.
Idea
A plan, purpose, or goal
She started school with the idea of becoming a doctor.
Construct
A concept or model.
Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.
Idea
The gist or significance
The idea of the article is that investing in green technology can save you money in the long run.
Construct
(genetics) A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or tissue.
Idea
A sense that something can happen; a notion or expectation
They have this idea that we can just drop what we're doing and go to the park.
Construct
(transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
We constructed the radio from spares.
A wall constructed of random stones.
Idea
(Music) A theme or motif.
Construct
(transitive) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.
Idea
In the philosophy of Plato, a non-physical form or archetype to which beings in phenomenal reality correspond only as imperfect replicas.
Construct
To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
Construct a circle that touches each vertex of the given triangle.
Idea
In the philosophy of Kant, a concept of reason that is transcendent but nonempirical.
Construct
To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.
Idea
In the philosophy of Hegel, absolute truth; the complete and ultimate product of reason.
Construct
To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics.
Idea
(Obsolete) A mental image of something remembered.
Construct
Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference.
Idea
(philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
Construct
An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
Idea
(obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.
Construct
Make by combining materials and parts;
This little pig made his house out of straw
Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer
Idea
(obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.
Construct
Put together out of components or parts;
The company fabricates plastic chairs
They manufacture small toys
Idea
An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
The mere idea of you is enough to excite me.
Construct
Draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions;
Construct an equilateral triangle
Idea
More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
Construct
Create by linking linguistic units;
Construct a sentence
Construct a paragraph
Idea
A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
I have an idea of how we might escape.
Construct
Create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts;
Construct a proof
Construct an argument
Idea
A purposeful aim or goal; intent
Yeah, that's the idea.
Construct
Reassemble mentally;
Reconstruct the events of 20 years ago
Idea
A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
He had the wild idea that if he leant forward a little, he might be able to touch the mountain-top.
Idea
(music) A musical theme or melodic subject.
Idea
The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.
Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts.
Being the right idea of your fatherBoth in your form and nobleness of mind.
This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its idea.
Idea
A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.
Alice had not the slightest idea what latitude was.
Idea
Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.
Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or as the immediate object of perception, thought, or undersanding, that I call idea.
Idea
A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
What is now "idea" for us? How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly-created world, -"how it showed . . . Answering his great idea," -to its present use, when this person "has an idea that the train has started," and the other "had no idea that the dinner would be so bad!"
Idea
A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
I shortly afterwards set off for that capital, with an idea of undertaking while there the translation of the work.
Idea
A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.
Idea
A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.
Thence to behold this new-created world,The addition of his empire, how it showedIn prospect from his throne, how good, how fair,Answering his great idea.
Idea
The content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about;
It was not a good idea
The thought never entered my mind
Idea
A personal view;
He has an idea that we don't like him
Idea
An approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth;
An estimate of what it would cost
A rough idea how long it would take
Idea
Your intention; what you intend to do;
He had in mind to see his old teacher
The idea of the game is to capture all the pieces
Idea
(music) melodic subject of a musical composition;
The theme is announced in the first measures
The accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it
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