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Definitions of construction
  1. noun
    the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
    "their main business is home construction"

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  2. noun
    the act of constructing something
    "during the construction we had to take a detour"

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  3. noun
    an interpretation of a text or action
    "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

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

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  5. 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"
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  6. noun
    a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
    "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"

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  7. 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"
Parts of construction
  • "painting"
  • "house painting"
  • "plumbing"
  • "plumbery"
  • "sheet-metal work"
  • "roofing"
  • "shingling"
  • "masonry"
  • "plate"
  • "structural member"
  • "fundament"
  • "groundwork"
  • "base"
  • "foundation"
  • "foot"
  • "substructure"
  • "understructure"
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