(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.
Grammatical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule.
(a.) According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contrary to Taylor (1966) there were significant correlations between stuttering and grammatical class even when initial phoneme and word in sentence were held constant.
(2) The linguistic performances of 15 noninstitutionalized and 15 institutionalized retarded children were compared on usage of grammatical categories and structure of spoken language (Length--Complexity Index) and for underlying subskills (Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities).
(3) When grammatical repairs and repairs to text meaning were analysed, no group differences were found for either repair type.
(4) During subsequent assessments, agrammatic aphasics reveal on a metalinguistic judgment task their significant difficulty appreciating the grammatical form class of "bice"; on an object classification task, fluent aphasics are significantly impaired in their classification of bice-colored objects as "bice."
(5) One example of this type of interdisciplinary research is the attempt to construct a grammatical theory of the regulation of gene expression.
(6) The proportion of paradigmatic responses varied with the grammatical class of the stimulus word and with the vocabulary level of the subject, but not with age.
(7) Explanation for this is sought in the grammatical location of these two units.
(8) As predicted, the younger children were better at correcting the nouns than the verbs; the two grammatical forms were corrected equally well by the older children.
(9) He frequently intermingled two sentences to convey a given concept, juxtaposing words in grammatically unacceptable ways.
(10) These subjects were tested on a wide variety of structures of English grammar, using a grammaticality judgment task.
(11) As regards the text measurements discriminating capacity, it was found out that grammatical analysis, with its high reliability, and validity, proved to be the best discriminative tool.
(12) Aphasics repeated accurately more grammatical than ungrammatical sentences.
(13) This study investigated the possibility that the reported success of agrammatic aphasic patients in performing auditory grammaticality judgments results from their use of intonational cues to sentence well-formedness.
(14) Skills 41, 578-593, 1975) indicated no significant difference in mean discrimination scores under the grammatical and semantically anomalous conditions; however, significance was found for the ungrammatical masker.
(15) The aphasic patients' performance was slightly worse for both signal-processed conditions, but there was little apparent effect of removing sentence intonation on their ability to judge sentence grammaticality.
(16) The hypotheses for the grammar of genome structure are: (i) the "grammaticality" of the linguistic approach studies the "regulability" of genome structures; (ii) the "regulability" of genetic structures is independent from their specific biochemical meaning and (iii) the dynamics of regulation is implicit in the genome structure.
(17) He omitted 43% of articles, 40% of complementizers, 20% of pronouns, 27% of semantically marked prepositions, 43% of purely grammatic prepositions, and 22% of auxiliary verbs, but his average sentence length was 9.8 words and 64% of his sentences contained embedded clauses.
(18) Theoretical considerations and psycholinguistic studies have alternatively provided criticism and support for the proposal that semantic and grammatical functions are distinct subprocesses within the language domain.
(19) The contrasting performance suggests that grammatical-class distinctions are redundantly represented in the phonological and orthographic output lexical components.
(20) A wide variety of linguistic parameters designed to reflect verbal productivity and grammatical complexity was selected for analysis.