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Meaning of construction
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
construction
n 1: the act of constructing something; "during the construction
we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of
boats" [syn: {construction}, {building}]
2: 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" [syn:
{construction}, {grammatical construction}, {expression}]
[ant: {misconstruction}]
3: the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas
into a congruous object of thought [syn: {construction},
{mental synthesis}]
4: 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" [syn: {structure}, {construction}]
5: 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"
6: an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an
unsympathetic construction on his conduct" [syn:
{construction}, {twist}]
7: the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures
or constructing new ones; "their main business is home
construction"; "workers in the building trades" [syn:
{construction}, {building}]
WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu
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