单词 | constructed |
释义 | constructedadj. a. Formed by construction; usually with qualification, as well-constructed. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > formed or constructed wroughtOE wroughtOE confecta1398 combinedc14.. complosec1420 made1428 counterfeit1463 edificatec1470 construct?a1475 featuredc1500 compact1531 fashioned1535 conflate1541 confectedc1550 framed1565 timbered1570 constitute1589 compacted1598 fact1600 coagulate1610 quilted1617 coagulated1633 conflated1652 composititious1657 made-up1677 compactilea1682 constructed1785 put-together1848 compaginate1877 the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > formed or constructed > well well-buildedc1330 compact1430 well-composed1485 well built?c1525 well-compacted1548 well-constituted1584 well-constructed1646 thorough-made1649 well-constructed1785 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [adjective] > construct form of noun constructed1785 construct1821 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 523 A well-constructed brain. View more context for this quotation 1885 Athenæum 12 Sept. 332/1 What may be called constructed poetry, or poetry of deliberation. b. constructed state: = construct adj. 2. Draft additions June 2014 constructed language n. an artificially created language; cf. natural language n. 2. ΚΠ 1928 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 49 285 I have met all the ordinary objections to a constructed language and have shown how it is possible. 1970 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 35 311 The syntax of a natural language, like English, is best represented and investigated by comparison with a constructed language. 1997 Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 16 Sept. a2/2 My primary use of the Internet is to correspond with a large group of people who speak a constructed language called ‘tihIngan Hol’. It was created for the Klingons in the movie ‘Star Trek III’. 2012 Irish Times (Nexis) 17 July (Ireland section) 6 Esperanto remains the most popular of the various constructed languages with as many as two million speakers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1785 |
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