What's the difference between construe and expound?

Construe


Definition:

  • (v. t. ) To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.
  • (v. t. ) To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This procedure generated a number of VI-like effects, supporting the notion that VI behavior can be construed as a special case of an interaction between the organism's function relating reinforcement susceptibilities to chain length and the experimenter's function relating probabilities of reinforcement to chain length.
  • (2) However, the test by itself should not be construed as an unequivocal measure of hysteria as defined psychologically by the MMPI.
  • (3) The absence of fatal ASCVD in these athletes can not be construed as evidence for the protective role of exercise alone.
  • (4) The search for the acoustic properties useful to the listener in extracting the linguistic message from a speech signal is often construed as the task of matching invariant physical properties to invariant phonological percepts; the discovery of the former will explain the latter.
  • (5) This seems to be the only consistent significant difference between the secretions of male and female grey duikers and together with the fact that only males mark out their territories, was construed as evidence in favour of these two compounds playing a significant role in the territorial behaviour of male grey duikers.
  • (6) Scotland remains the only country not to teach its own children its history, and the built heritage has been neglected, bulldozed or shunned by politicians fearing anything that might be construed as “too nationalistic”.
  • (7) The extent to which individuals construe film through identification with the narrative's characters was also examined.
  • (8) This classification emphasizes the fact that central serous retinopathy, whatever its etiology, represents a generalized affectation of the pigment epithelium and should be construed as a potentially serious disorder requiring thorough evaluation and follow-up care.
  • (9) We construe this pattern of age separation within families as suggestive of an environmental rather than genetic cause.
  • (10) These results were construed to support a two-component hypothesis for cardiac electrogenesis.
  • (11) Using the invasive and non-invasive data of three groups a non-invasive diastolic pressure scale for both ventricles could be construed.
  • (12) The Court upheld Pennsylvania's law defining medical emergency, as construed by the Court of Appeals; allowed a 24-hour waiting period for women who must 1st hear information about pregnancy and abortion to insure thoughtful informed consent; allowed a parental consent provision, with a judicial bypass; and allowed a recordkeeping and reporting requirement; but disallowed a spousal notification requirement, noting that "[a] State may not give to a man the kind of dominion over his wife that parents exercise over their children."
  • (13) There was no support for the hypothesis, but there was evidence of greater negativity of self-construing in the client group.
  • (14) These results are construed to suggest that oval cells proliferating during CDE hepatocarcinogenesis are derived from epithelial cells within the biliary tree.
  • (15) The censorship followed a warning from a New York-based group of extremist Muslim converts that could be construed as a death threat.
  • (16) Against this background, medical acts (as those performed in other "ethical professions") are construed as occurring in a communicative context which can be differentiated from the context of marketing and advertising on the basis of reciprocity and respect.
  • (17) This modality, however; should not be construed as "conservative" management.
  • (18) This study was designed to test four hypotheses: (a) parents of schizophrenics constitute a discrete group amongst the parents of psychiatric patients with regard to aspects of their construing; (b) schizophrenics can be differentiated from other psychiatric patients by aspects of their construing; (c) the construing of parents of psychiatric patients is related to that of their disturbed children; and (d) parents of schizophrenics differ from parents of other psychiatric patients in their personality and attitudes.
  • (19) The time limit in psychoanalytically oriented brief psychotherapy has been construed as a motivation for the patient and the therapist to work more efficiently in therapy and as a stimulation of the patient's unconscious conflicts relating to separation and loss.
  • (20) In general, these results suggest that patients displayed similar symptom patterns over time, whether construed as personality traits or characteristic patterns of responding when symptomatic.

Expound


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.
  • (v. t.) To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The paper reports the formation and crystal structure of dihydronitidine, expounds the reasons and conditions of easily formed oxynitidine, and discusses anticancer mechanism of nitidine (cation).
  • (2) Having described the methods used in the immunocytological investigation of 21 lymphomas and 3 pseudolymphomas, the authors expound their classification of malignant cutaneous lymphomas before stating the results obtained in immunocytological studies in each of the groups.
  • (3) The strong need for integrated management of gynaecologico-obstetric attention as well as the role played by interdisciplinary cooperation as a prerequisite for high-continuity medico-social services are expounded against the background of health policies established for the current period up to 1980 and with close reference to experience obtained in every-day practice.
  • (4) The problems relating to progressive coronary artery sclerosis and bypass sclerosis are expounded in this paper by the example of 14 patients, with reference being made to indications for recurrent surgical intervention for vascular reconstruction.
  • (5) The Teardrop Explodes’ Julian Cope spent a lot of time happily expounding the benefits of LSD, while the very existence of Boy George clearly raised a number of interesting issues.
  • (6) Finally, the merits of a general theory of problem drinking, as opposed to a diversity of explanatory models, are expounded.
  • (7) Ann Richards also expounded the value of getting on with a broad range of people.
  • (8) And he expounded his new vision – a United States of Africa, with Sirte as its capital, and himself as its self-anointed king of kings.
  • (9) These forms expound the scanning conditions and image characteristics and make easy to be compared with the spin echo images.
  • (10) Musk has a reputation for being prickly but when I meet him at SpaceX , his headquarters west of Los Angeles, he is affable and chatty, cheerfully expounding on space exploration, climate change, Richard Branson and Hollywood.
  • (11) The authors expound a method of functional treatment with a "short" polyvic orthosis on the basis of their experience in treating 38 patients.
  • (12) Lieberman is said to have listened as the president's son expounded on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Iran's growing regional influence and how Saddam Hussein – for all his flaws – was a bulwark against Iranian ambitions.
  • (13) Twenty original observations are expounded and discussed; they allow the importance of basic psychological ground; it is necessary to differentiate distinctly between initial paternity disturbances, among immature patients, inducing total disorder, and multiple paternity perturbations where anxiety and culpability feeling prevail.
  • (14) I still am.” For many Republican primary voters, the question is whether the unassuming if somewhat gruff Paul – who insisted on no mayo in the ham and cheese sandwich he ordered for lunch – ever was particularly interesting, or if voters were only attracted to the idiosyncratic, 21st-century libertarianism he expounds.
  • (15) The variable biological behaviour of these tumors is discussed and the possibilities of surgical treatment are expounded.
  • (16) In 2013, speaking to Fox Business , he expounded on his view of the roles of men and women in society.
  • (17) The linguistic properties of the FAAF test material are expounded in relation to its objectives.
  • (18) This questions expound why this research is based upon an intersubjective accompanying during the coma.
  • (19) The article expounds S. S. Yudin's views on problems of anesthesia in various periods of his surgical activity: ideas on the necessity of introducing modern multicomponent endotracheal anesthesia were expressed before the mid-forties.
  • (20) The authors expound the principles of making up of the algorithm (program) for diagnosis and implementation of the optimal variations of rod insertion in various types of fractures of the extremities and the method of adaptation of the program to a specific fracture according to its biomechanical characteristics.