reconstruct
English
[edit]Etymology
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English construct
English reconstruct
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkt/
Audio (Berkshire, Southern England): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌɹikənˈstɹʌkt/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹɐkt/
Verb
[edit]reconstruct (third-person singular simple present reconstructs, present participle reconstructing, simple past and past participle reconstructed)
- To construct again; to restore.
- Antonym: deconstruct
- Hypernym: construct
- 1950 October, “Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
- As it was necessary to reconstruct the culvert close to the original position, the hazards of tunnelling through clay in an unstable condition, due to the absorption of water, had to be reduced by the application of electro-osmosis to dry out the material.
- 1958 July, “Bridge Reconstruction for L.M.R. Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 465:
- The greatest number of bridges requiring modification are overline bridges, and many methods are adopted in reconstructing and altering them to give increased clearances.
- 2016, Although valuable contributions were made by van der Tuuk, Brandstetter and others during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the foundation-laying work in Austronesian comparative linguistics was provided by Otto Dempwolff (1934-1938), who reconstructed a complete (but inadequate) sound system, and over 2,200 lexical reconstructions in the form of an Austronesian comparative dictionary. […] He did this by selecting just three languages, Tagalog, Toba Batak and Javanese, to reconstruct the phonology of ‘Uraustronesisch’ (Dempwolff 1934), and then testing the adequacy of this reconstruction with eight other languages scattered from Madagascar to Samoa (Dempwolff 1937), Austronesian Comparative Dictionary[1]:
- 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
- […] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.
- To attempt to understand an event by recreating, imagining, or talking through the circumstances.
- Coordinate terms: deconstruct; reenact
- 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:
- But reconstructing the scene among those silent walls in the precarious light, with the unforgotten ghosts of other crimes ready to emerge from every shadow, I can conceive that no more frightful spectre than this sombre being, dripping red from hands and face at every step, has ever walked.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to construct again
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “reconstruct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “reconstruct”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “reconstruct”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ster-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱe
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *strew-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sterh₃-
- English terms prefixed with re-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱóm
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