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construction::noun | Spocien Dictionary

construction

/kən'strəkʃən/

the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones

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

their main business is home construction.

construction::noun | Spocien Dictionary

construction

/kən'strəkʃən/

the act of constructing something

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.

construction::noun | Spocien Dictionary

construction

/kən'strəkʃən/

an interpretation of a text or action

Type	Words
Synonyms	twist
Type of	interpretation

they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct.

construction::noun | Spocien Dictionary

construction

/kən'strəkʃən/

the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought

Type	Words
Synonyms	mental synthesis
Type of	cerebration, thought process, thought, thinking, mentation, intellection
Has types	gestation, crystallization

construction::noun | Spocien Dictionary

construction

/kən'strəkʃən/

a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit

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.

construction::noun | Spocien Dictionary

construction

/kən'strəkʃən/

a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts

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.

construction::noun | Spocien Dictionary

construction

/kən'strəkʃən/

drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem

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.