noun
- The act of constructing something.
- usage: "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"
- synonyms: building
- A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit.
- usage: "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"
- synonyms: grammatical construction, expression
- The creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought.
- synonyms: mental synthesis
- A thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts.
- usage: "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
- synonyms: structure
- Drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem.
- usage: "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"
- An interpretation of a text or action.
- usage: "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"
- synonyms: twist
- The commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones.
- usage: "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"
- synonyms: building
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