construction

construction is a 12-letter English word with 11 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 21 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.
2. noun. The form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement.
3. noun. The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement.
4. noun. The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense.
5. noun. 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"

6. noun. the act of constructing something

   "during the construction we had to take a detour"

   "his hobby was the building of boats"

   Synonyms: building

7. noun. the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones

   "their main business is home construction"

   "workers in the building trades"

   Synonyms: building

8. noun. a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts

   "the structure consisted of a series of arches"

   "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"

   Synonyms: structure

9. noun. the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
10. noun. 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

11. noun. an interpretation of a text or action

    "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

    Synonyms: twist

Synonyms

building, structure, expression, twist

Common word forms

constructions, constructional

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