Construe
91decipher — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. make out, decode; translate, interpret. See interpretation. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. decode, interpret, read, make clear, translate, spell, unravel, reveal, unfold, elucidate, solve, interpret by… …
92define — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. explain, interpret; prescribe; describe, circumscribe, limit, demarcate. See interpretation. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To set limits] Syn. delimit, demarcate, fix, settle, bound, confine, limit,… …
93infer — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. gather, reason, deduce, conclude, opine; presume; construe. See reasoning. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To reach a conclusion] Syn. conclude, deduce, gather, judge, come to the conclusion that, draw the… …
94translate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. transfer; decipher, decode, render; construe, [re]interpret; transform, transmute, change. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To change into another language] Syn. decode, transliterate, transcribe, interpret,… …
95construct — [17] Construct comes from the present participle of Latin construere ‘pile up 129 continue together, build’, a compound verb formed from the prefix com and struere ‘pile up’ (source of English destroy and structure). English acquired the same… …
96structure — [15] Structure comes via Old French structure from Latin structūra, a noun derived from the past participle of struere ‘build’. Other English words from the same source are construct, construe, destroy, destruction, instruct, and obstruct [17].… …
97misconstrue — (v.) late 14c., to put a wrong construction on (words or deeds), from MIS (Cf. mis ) (1) + CONSTRUE (Cf. construe). Related: Misconstrued; misconstruing …
98explain — 1 Explain, expound, explicate, elucidate, interpret, construe are comparable when they mean to make oneself or another understand the meaning of something. Explain, the most general term, implies a making of something plain or intelligible to… …
99συνεπιμεριστέον — one must construe also masc acc sg συνεπιμεριστέον one must construe also neut nom/voc/acc sg …
100construct — construct, construe are related words (from Latin struere ‘to build’) which are both used to denote grammatical function. A word is construed or constructed with (e.g.) on when on is its regular complement, e.g. insist on and rely on (the OED… …
