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Definition of construe in English: construeverbconstrues, construing, construed kənˈstruːkənˈstru [with object]1Interpret (a word or action) in a particular way. his words could hardly be construed as an apology Example sentencesExamples - The words are not to be construed as if they were provisions in Acts of Parliament.
- The washing of dishes and the preaching of the word could both be construed as material expressions of devotion.
- Moreover words are to be construed as generally used in the jurisdiction of England and Wales.
- Any such failure should be construed as contempt of court and should therefore attract prosecution of the police officers involved.
- Or if we sent an e-mail about that issue using our computer, it would probably be construed as a misuse of the computer.
- The definition's use of words like ‘traitor’ cannot be construed as representations of fact.
- While, in the first instance, a consolidating Act is to be construed in the same way as any other, if real doubt as to its legal meaning arises, its words are to be construed as if they remained in the earlier Act.
- In such societies, one's eccentric taste is always more likely to be construed as a threat to the community - as a signifier of disloyalty - than as an icon of aspiration.
- The advertisements correspond very well with the government's overall intent and I can't see how it could be construed as misleading in any way.
- I find it difficult to see how those words could be construed as a dismissal of the committee's recommendations.
- But opponents charged that tossing out the amnesty laws would open a can of worms and that Congress could be construed as overstepping bounds and infringing on the courts' decisions.
- In essence his submission was that those words were to be construed as being confined to torts and therefore did not include the pleaded acts of knowing assistance.
- The right of access to a Court has been construed as including the right to effective enforcement of judgments.
- ‘There is legislation which clearly makes it an offence to offer or expose for sale any item which can be construed as obscene,’ the police spokeswoman said.
- I am tempted to ask him whether it could not be construed as denunciatory, but decide to leave its interpretation opened-ended and up to the individual viewer.
- High Court strictures cannot be construed as a ban on demonstrations and rallies rather they are meant to hold them in a peaceful manner without causing much trouble to the public.
- He thought that if the words were construed as including the specific needs of a disabled child it would be necessary in every such case to determine what that child's specific needs were.
- This change was made because the word ‘commitment’ could be construed as a legally-binding promise of continued financial aid.
- This should not be construed as a lack of interest in this offer of funding.
- He said that morale continued to suffer, but when officers raised their concerns with their superiors they were ‘either ignored or dealt with in such a way that can only be construed as bullying’.
Synonyms interpret, understand, read, see, take, take to mean, parse, render, analyse, explain, elucidate, gloss, decode 2dated Analyse the syntax of (a text, sentence, or word) both verbs can be construed with either infinitive Example sentencesExamples - And explaining how to construe a sentence spoils its effect, just as explaining the punch line of a joke does.
- Although it is open to a court in limited circumstances to conclude that the words or syntax used is wrong, the purpose remains to construe the words used.
- All we need to do is to construe each action sentence as involving an implicit existential quantification, with the variable of quantification taking events as its possible values.
- It is permissible, where the context so allows, to construe words used in the plural as including the singular.
- Alternatively, the verb might be construed with the direct object ‘life’.
- 2.1 Translate (a passage or author) word for word, typically aloud.
she was construing straight-faced a suggestive passage of Ovid
Derivatives adjective Consequently, if his utterance is reasonably construable as an anti-Semitic one, he shouldn't be too severely blamed for that, or so I think anyway. Example sentencesExamples - His warm words, including a line construable as retaining the possibility of a referendum before the election, were perhaps just a sop to frustrated pro-euro people in his party, in business and on the continent.
- This would seem to be reasonable, so long as flexibility is construable as a contractual obligation (possibly through an implied term) but not if it goes beyond the scope of the contract.
- This masked man had just fired two bullets at her, an act construable as Attempted Murder, which fits that category of crimes known as ‘heinous felonies against the person.’
- In any case, I don't believe that any of the 100-odd instances of faith in the King James Version are plausibly construable as verbs.
noun Might a certain construal of authorial discourse interpretation be hospitable to reading by non-scholars? Example sentencesExamples - As I see it, the way forward is to develop and test particular narrative construals of Scripture.
- Finally, I think I'll stick with ‘seminiscient’ as an apt term to describe the open theist construal of God's knowledge.
- True, a certain construal marks any theological interpretation, but perhaps that can be at least reduced and limited.
- I suspect that a careful study of the phenomena (which I have certainly not made) would reveal that these alternative construals are playing a role in the on-going changes in various uses of like, including quotative ‘be like’.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin construere (see construct), in late Latin 'analyse the construction of a sentence'. Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo Definition of construe in US English: construeverbkənˈstrukənˈstro͞o [with object]1Interpret (a word or action) in a particular way. his words could hardly be construed as an apology Example sentencesExamples - The washing of dishes and the preaching of the word could both be construed as material expressions of devotion.
- I find it difficult to see how those words could be construed as a dismissal of the committee's recommendations.
- The definition's use of words like ‘traitor’ cannot be construed as representations of fact.
- In such societies, one's eccentric taste is always more likely to be construed as a threat to the community - as a signifier of disloyalty - than as an icon of aspiration.
- The right of access to a Court has been construed as including the right to effective enforcement of judgments.
- Moreover words are to be construed as generally used in the jurisdiction of England and Wales.
- This change was made because the word ‘commitment’ could be construed as a legally-binding promise of continued financial aid.
- He thought that if the words were construed as including the specific needs of a disabled child it would be necessary in every such case to determine what that child's specific needs were.
- The words are not to be construed as if they were provisions in Acts of Parliament.
- The advertisements correspond very well with the government's overall intent and I can't see how it could be construed as misleading in any way.
- ‘There is legislation which clearly makes it an offence to offer or expose for sale any item which can be construed as obscene,’ the police spokeswoman said.
- In essence his submission was that those words were to be construed as being confined to torts and therefore did not include the pleaded acts of knowing assistance.
- This should not be construed as a lack of interest in this offer of funding.
- I am tempted to ask him whether it could not be construed as denunciatory, but decide to leave its interpretation opened-ended and up to the individual viewer.
- High Court strictures cannot be construed as a ban on demonstrations and rallies rather they are meant to hold them in a peaceful manner without causing much trouble to the public.
- He said that morale continued to suffer, but when officers raised their concerns with their superiors they were ‘either ignored or dealt with in such a way that can only be construed as bullying’.
- But opponents charged that tossing out the amnesty laws would open a can of worms and that Congress could be construed as overstepping bounds and infringing on the courts' decisions.
- Any such failure should be construed as contempt of court and should therefore attract prosecution of the police officers involved.
- While, in the first instance, a consolidating Act is to be construed in the same way as any other, if real doubt as to its legal meaning arises, its words are to be construed as if they remained in the earlier Act.
- Or if we sent an e-mail about that issue using our computer, it would probably be construed as a misuse of the computer.
Synonyms interpret, understand, read, see, take, take to mean, parse, render, analyse, explain, elucidate, gloss, decode - 1.1dated Analyze the syntax of (a text, sentence, or word)
both verbs can be construed with either infinitive Example sentencesExamples - Alternatively, the verb might be construed with the direct object ‘life’.
- It is permissible, where the context so allows, to construe words used in the plural as including the singular.
- All we need to do is to construe each action sentence as involving an implicit existential quantification, with the variable of quantification taking events as its possible values.
- And explaining how to construe a sentence spoils its effect, just as explaining the punch line of a joke does.
- Although it is open to a court in limited circumstances to conclude that the words or syntax used is wrong, the purpose remains to construe the words used.
- 1.2dated Translate (a passage or author) word for word, typically aloud.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin construere (see construct), in late Latin ‘analyze the construction of a sentence’. |