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construction [n]
 
1)the act of constructing or building something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"
    Synonyms :building 
    See Also: creating_from_raw_materials  build  crenelation  erecting  house-raising  assembly  dry_walling  grading  road_construction  shipbuilding  rustication  reface  wattle  frame  rebuild  groin  erect  preassemble 
 
2)the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"
    Synonyms :building 
    See Also: business  build  build  masonry  house_painting  plumbery  roofing  sheet-metal_work  shingling  jerry-building 
 
3)a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
    Synonyms :structure 
    See Also: artefact  airdock  altar  arcade  arch  area  balcony  balcony  bascule  boarding  body  bridge  building  building_complex  catchment  coil  colonnade  column  corner  cross  deathtrap  defence  door  entablature  erection  establishment  floor  base  fountain  card-house  housing  hull  jungle_gym  lamination  landing  lookout  masonry  memorial  hill  impediment  divider  plate  platform  porch  post_and_lintel  prefab  projection  public_works  offset  shelter  shoebox  sign  arena  structural_member  superstructure  supporting_structure  tower  transept  trestlework  vaulting  shipway  wellhead  wind_tunnel  balance 
 
4)a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"
    Synonyms :expression grammatical_construction 
    See Also: constituent  misconstruction  adjunct  clause  complement  involution  phrase  predicator 
 
5)the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
    Synonyms :mental_synthesis 
    See Also: cerebration  crystallization  gestation 
 
6)an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"
    Synonyms :twist 
    See Also: interpretation  convolute 
 
7)drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: mathematical_operation  construct  quadrature 
 



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