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construction

const·ruc·tion

UK/kənˈstɹʌkʃən/ US/kʌˈnstrʌkʃʌn/ common

noun

1.

the act of constructing or building something

  • “during the construction we had to take a detour”
  • “his hobby was the building of boats”
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2.

the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings

  • “their main business is home construction”
  • “workers in the building trades”
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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”
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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”
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5.

the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought

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6.

an interpretation of a text or action

  • “they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct”
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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”

Origin

From Middle English construccioun, construction, from Old French construction, from Latin cōnstructiō, from cōnstruere. Morphologically construct + -ion.

Phrases

  • ba construction
  • Cayley-Dickson construction
  • construction barrel
  • construction battalion
  • construction drum
  • construction grammar
  • construction helmet
  • construction language

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