Construe

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  • intransitive verb. To understand or explain the meaning of (something), especially in a particular way; interpret: synonym: explain.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To analyze the structure of (a clause or sentence).
  • intransitive verb. To use syntactically.
  • intransitive verb. To translate, especially aloud.
  • intransitive verb. To analyze grammatical structure.
  • intransitive verb. To be subject to grammatical analysis.
  • noun. An interpretation or translation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To yield to or admit of grammatical analysis or interpretation: as, a sentence that will not construe.
  • To arrange the words of in their natural order; reduce the words of from a transposed to a natural order, so as to demonstrate the sense; hence, interpret, and, when applied to a foreign language, translate: as, to construe a sentence; to construe Greek, Latin, or French.
  • Hence To interpret; explain; show or understand the meaning of; render.
  • Synonyms Interpret, Render, etc. (see translate). Construe, Construct. “To construe means to interpret, to show the meaning; to construct means to build: we may construe a sentence, as in translation, or construct it, as in composition.”
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A translation.
  • noun. An interpretation.
  • verb. To interpret or explain the meaning of something.
  • verb. To analyze the grammatical structure of a clause or sentence.
  • verb. To translate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make sense of; assign a meaning to