construction

Plural: constructions

Noun

• the act of constructing something
  • "during the construction we had to take a detour"
• 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"
• the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
• a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
  • "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
• 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"
• an interpretation of a text or action
  • "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"
• the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
  • "their main business is home construction"
• The process of constructing.
• Anything that has been constructed.
• The trade of building structures.
• A building, model or some other structure.
• A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
• The manner in which something is built.
• A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
• The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
• The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
• A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

Examples

• "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.
• A thing of simple construction.
• American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.
• Construction is underway on the new bridge.
• He had worked in construction all his life.
• The engineer marvelled at his construction.
• The office was a construction of steel and glass.

Synonyms

building, expression, grammatical construction, mental synthesis, structure, twist, construal

Antonyms

misconstruction, destruction