Meaning of "construing" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF CONSTRUING

construing

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONSTRUING

Construing is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb construing in English.

WHAT DOES CONSTRUING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Construals

In social psychology, construals are how individuals perceive, comprehend, and interpret the world around them, particularly the behavior or action of others towards themselves. Researchers and theorists within virtually every sub-discipline of psychology have acknowledged the relevance of a subjective construal, especially with regards to the concepts of the false consensus effect and the fundamental attribution error. There is a difference between self-construal and construal in a social atmosphere. While self-construal is a perception of the self, the latter is a perception of one's surroundings. Construal plays a crucial role in situations "whenever people are obliged to venture beyond the information immediately provided by the direct observation or secondhand report of a stimulus event, in particular whenever they are obliged to infer additional details of content, context, or meaning in the actions and outcomes that unfold around them." In other words, a person is most likely to use construal when he or she lacks the knowledge to correctly deal with a given situation.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CONSTRUING

PRESENT

Present

I construe

you construe

he/she/it construes

we construe

you construe

they construe

Present continuous

I am construing

you are construing

he/she/it is construing

we are construing

you are construing

they are construing

Present perfect

I have construed

you have construed

he/she/it has construed

we have construed

you have construed

they have construed

Present perfect continuous

I have been construing

you have been construing

he/she/it has been construing

we have been construing

you have been construing

they have been construing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I construed

you construed

he/she/it construed

we construed

you construed

they construed

Past continuous

I was construing

you were construing

he/she/it was construing

we were construing

you were construing

they were construing

Past perfect

I had construed

you had construed

he/she/it had construed

we had construed

you had construed

they had construed

Past perfect continuous

I had been construing

you had been construing

he/she/it had been construing

we had been construing

you had been construing

they had been construing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will construe

you will construe

he/she/it will construe

we will construe

you will construe

they will construe

Future continuous

I will be construing

you will be construing

he/she/it will be construing

we will be construing

you will be construing

they will be construing

Future perfect

I will have construed

you will have construed

he/she/it will have construed

we will have construed

you will have construed

they will have construed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been construing

you will have been construing

he/she/it will have been construing

we will have been construing

you will have been construing

they will have been construing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would construing

you would construing

he/she/it would construing

we would construing

you would construing

they would construing

Conditional continuous

I would be construing

you would be construing

he/she/it would be construing

we would be construing

you would be construing

they would be construing

Conditional perfect

I would have construing

you would have construing

he/she/it would have construing

we would have construing

you would have construing

they would have construing

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been construing

you would have been construing

he/she/it would have been construing

we would have been construing

you would have been construing

they would have been construing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you construe
we let´s construe
you construe

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to construe

Past participle

construed

Present Participle

construing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «CONSTRUING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «construing» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of construing

analyse · explain · interpret · parse · read · take · translate

TRANSLATION OF CONSTRUING

Find out the translation of construing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of construing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «construing» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 诠释
• Translator English - Spanish: interpretar
• English: construing
• Translator English - Hindi: construing
• Translator English - Arabic: تأويل
• Translator English - Russian: толковании
• Translator English - Portuguese: interpretar
• Translator English - Bengali: construing
• Translator English - French: l´interprétation
• Translator English - Malay: Membayangkan
• Translator English - German: Auslegung
• Translator English - Japanese: 解釈
• Translator English - Korean: 해석하는
• Translator English - Javanese: Ngandhut
• Translator English - Vietnamese: construing
• Translator English - Tamil: construing
• Translator English - Marathi: Construing
• Translator English - Turkish: construing
• Translator English - Italian: interpretare
• Translator English - Polish: interpretowaniu
• Translator English - Ukrainian: тлумаченні
• Translator English - Romanian: Interpretând
• Translator English - Greek: ερμηνεύοντας
• Translator English - Afrikaans: die uitleg
• Translator English - Swedish: tolka
• Translator English - Norwegian: utlegge

QUOTES WITH «CONSTRUING»

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Paul Ricoeur

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONSTRUING»

Discover the use of construing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to construing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-Based ...

The subject of this book is how human beings construe their experience of the world.

M.A.K. Halliday, Christian Matthiessen, 2006

Construing: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases

Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Websters Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).

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The Essential Practitioner's Handbook of Personal Construct ...

Clearly the dispersed pattern is accompanied by a rich, varied, multifaceted construing system, as Karen's example demonstrates. By contrast Kam and Allen show a more restricted range of constructs about resources as well as problems.

Fay Fransella, 2005

Personal Construct Therapy: A Handbook

Three major questions about the construing of therapists are answered. First, how do personal construct therapists view therapy? This question is answered in terms of the intentions, experiences, and reflections, as well as in their evaluations ...

Linda L. Viney, 1996

An Opinion Construing the Primary Election Law ......

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

W H Stead, 2011

The Family's Construction of Reality

Our fundamental hypothesis — that a family's problem-solving style, as measured in our laboratory, is a direct consequence of the family's typical approach to construing its social world — is difficult to test directly. For example, there are no ...

David Reiss, 1981

Personal Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice: Theory, ...

Compared to the attention paid to structural disorders of construing, relatively little concern has been shown by personal construct theorists with disorders of construct content. Kelly (1955) himself devoted only a page to this topic in his ...

David A. Winter, 1994

Women and Autobiography

Construing. Truth. in. Lying. Mouths: Truthtelling. in. Women's. Autobiography*. Sidonie. Smith. Sidonie Smith 's scholarship on women and autobiography has been important in both defining and advancing the field of feminist autobiography  ...

Martine Watson Brownley, Allison B. Kimmich, 1999

Construing Pcp: New Contexts and Perspectives

It attracted over 50 participants from Europe, UK as well as USA and Australia. The event brought together experienced PCP academ-ics and practitioners as well as students entering the field of Personal Construct Psychology.

Dorota Bourne, Martin Fromm, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONSTRUING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term construing is used in the context of the following news items.

Supreme Court determines 'ordinary residence' of an adult lacking …

Lord Carnwath notes that in construing section 24 of the 1948 Act, the statutory context is critical. The relevant provisions in each Act have the ... «Family Law, Jul 15»

The wrinkle in the ACA decision

Construing the Constitution in the Arizona case, Roberts said the Framers' language was as clear as their purpose, to which deference is due. «Montana Standard, Jul 15»

Antonin Scalia: An honest approach to judging

No judge would disagree over how disputes over such contracts must be settled: by construing the contract according to what it says and fairly ... «San Diego Source, Jul 15»

In the Wake of Heimeshoff, the 11th Circuit and Equitable Tolling of …

However, even construing the regulation against Standard for purposes of its analysis, the 11th Circuit Court determined that Wilson's claim ... «JD Supra, Jul 15»

United States ex rel. Hartpence v. Kinetic Concepts, Inc.

In construing the provisions of a statute, we begin by looking at the language of the statute to determine whether it has a plain meaning. «The Recorder, Jul 15»

Resolving Inconsistent Jurisdiction Clauses And Limits To Fiona …

It also suggested that in such a situation it was less likely that detailed linguistic analysis would be of assistance in construing the terms of the ... «JD Supra, Jul 15»

The super-PAC minuet

Reformers scold the U.S. Supreme Court for construing the First Amendment as though it states "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the ... «Waterbury Republican American, Jul 15»

Chosen Law Found Not to Apply to Enforce Restrictive Covenants

... exclusive focus of Florida law on the employer's interests, Florida's prohibition against narrowly construing restrictive covenants, and Florida's ... «New York Law Journal, Jul 15»

Federal Circuit revises law on construing means-plus-function claim …

On June 16 2015 the Federal Circuit, in affirming the invalidity of certain patent claims as indefinite under 35 USC § 112(2), revised the law on ... «International Law Office, Jul 15»

Inter Partes Review: Indefinite Claims Can't Play

... of proving the unpatentability of the claims challenged in an IPR petition requires the Board to begin its analysis by construing the claims. «Mondaq News Alerts, Jul 15»