Meanings
- not comparableConstructed in advance.
There is, then, a psycholinguistic explanation for the prevalence of preconstructed and semi-preconstructed phrases in language.
1998, Alan Partington, Patterns and Meanings, →ISBN2 more examples
The preconstructed melodies often caught more than such melodies usually catch, their fake textures were full of small surprises, and most of all their lyrics actually justified their postmodern settings by deconstructing instead of just ridiculing the pop form in which they were set.
1988 October 28, Franklin Soults, “They Might Be Giants”, in Chicago ReaderThere is growing interest in the use of preconstructed files (see Gawlick, 2002 for further discussion), and there are increasingly sophisticated files available.
2004, Teaching Secondary Mathematics with ICT, →ISBN, page 90
Origin
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