construction

Definitions

1. 1noun

   The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

2. 2noun

   The form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement.

3. 3noun

   The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement.

4. 4noun

   The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense.

5. 5noun

   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. 6noun

   the act of constructing something

   "during the construction we had to take a detour"

   "his hobby was the building of boats"

   Synonyms

   building
7. 7noun

   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. 8noun

   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. 9noun

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

10. 10noun

    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. 11noun

    an interpretation of a text or action

    "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

    Synonyms

    twist