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"their main business is home construction"nounthe commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
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"during the construction we had to take a detour"nounthe act of constructing something
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"they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"nounan interpretation of a text or action
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nounthe creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
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"I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"nouna group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
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"she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"nouna thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
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"the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"noundrawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
Parts of construction
- "painting"
- "house painting"
- "plumbing"
- "plumbery"
- "sheet-metal work"
- "roofing"
- "shingling"
- "masonry"
- "plate"
- "structural member"
- "fundament"
- "groundwork"
- "base"
- "foundation"
- "foot"
- "substructure"
- "understructure"