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Meaning of construction in English

  1. Pronunciation

    /kənˈstrəkʃ(ə)n/

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  1. Noun

    construction

    Etymology

    late Middle English: via Old French from Latin constructio(n-), from construere‘heap together’ (see construct)

    Definitions

    1. the act of constructing or building something

    Examples

    • « during the construction we had to take a detour »
    • « his hobby was the building of boats »
  2. 2. the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings

    Examples

    • « their main business is home construction »
    • « workers in the building trades »
  3. 3. a thing constructed

    Examples

    • « a complex construction or entity »
    • « the structure consisted of a series of arches »
    • « she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons »
  4. 4. a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit

    Examples

    • « I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner »

    Antonyms

    • misconstruction
  5. 5. the creation of a construct

    Examples

    • « the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought »
  6. 6. an interpretation of a text or action

    Examples

    • « they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct »
  7. 7. drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem

    Examples

    • « the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem »

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