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How to pronounce construction in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms building
Type of business, commercial enterprise, business enterprise
Has types jerry-building


their main business is home construction.
Type Words
Synonyms building
Type of creating from raw materials
Has types leveling, road construction, house-raising, grading, shipbuilding, fabrication, erection, ship building, rustication, assembly, erecting, dry walling, bricolage, crenellation, crenelation
Derivation construct


during the construction we had to take a detour.
Type Words
Synonyms twist
Type of interpretation


they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct.
Type Words
Synonyms mental synthesis
Type of cerebration, thought process, thought, thinking, mentation, intellection
Has types gestation, crystallization
Type Words
Synonyms expression, grammatical construction
Type of grammatical constituent, constituent
Has types clause, complement, predicator, involution, phrase, adjunct


I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner.
Type Words
Synonyms structure
Type of artefact, artifact
Has types boarding, body, bowl, wind tunnel, bridge, building, building complex, whorl, wellhead, card-house, cardcastle, cardhouse, catchment, weapons platform, coil, colonnade, set-back, column, ways, complex, corner, counterbalance, volute, vaulting, cross, trestlework, deathtrap, defence, defense, defensive structure, divider, door, transept, edifice, entablature, equilibrium, equipoise, tower, erection, supporting structure, establishment, superstructure, false bottom, floor, fountain, airdock, altar, arcade, arch, area, arena, balance, balcony, bascule, sign, shoebox, porch, post and lintel, prefab, projection, public works, quoin, repair shed, shipway, shelter, setoff, sail, guide, hangar, helix, hill, honeycomb, story, house of cards, storey, housing, hull, impediment, impedimenta, stadium, sports stadium, jungle gym, lamination, landing, landing place, level, spiral, living accommodations, lodging, lookout, lookout station, masonry, span, memorial, slipway, monument, mound, observation tower, observatory, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor, offset, signboard, partition, pillar, platform


she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons.
Type Words
Type of mathematical process, operation, mathematical operation
Has types quadrature
Derivation construct


the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem.

Examples of construction

construction
These types of vehicles are used by construction companies and small businesses.
From the tennessean.com
The three construction workers continued to laugh it off and harass our actress.
From the abcnews.go.com
Construction stopped on the seven-story Jackson Building at the end of February.
From the thenewstribune.com
They are all poor people who were working as laborers in a construction company.
From the sacbee.com
Sixty five reactors are under construction, the association said on its website.
From the bloomberg.com
It has been plagued by delays since construction began more than five years ago.
From the bloomberg.com
To meet the timeline, construction would need to begin in about a year, he said.
From the omaha.com
Construction began in late 2008 and finished up in the latter half of last year.
From the stltoday.com
The excess supply of homes also is seen keeping construction at moribund levels.
From the online.wsj.com
More examples
  • The act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"
  • 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
  • Structure: a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "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"
  • In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking. ...
  • Construction is the title of several pieces by American composer John Cage, all scored for unorthodox percussion instruments. ...
  • The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007, often referred to as CDM, are important regulations in the construction industry in the United Kingdom introduced by the Health and Safety Executive's Construction Division. ...