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Meaning of construction in English
Pronunciation
/kənˈstrəkʃ(ə)n/
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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 »
2.
the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings
Examples
« their main business is home construction »
« workers in the building trades »
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 »
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 »