Meaning of construction in English

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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 »
Derived terms
2. the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings
Examples
- « their main business is home construction »
- « workers in the building trades »
Derived terms
- build
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. 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. the creation of a construct
Examples
- « the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought »
6. an interpretation of a text or action
Examples
- « they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct »
Derived terms
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 »
Derived terms
- construct

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