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]
