construction [ kən'strʌkʃən ]

• n.
  • the act of constructing something

    "during the construction we had to take a detour"

    同义词： building

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

    "their main business is home construction"

    同义词： building

  • a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts

    "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"

    同义词： structure

  • 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"

    同义词： grammatical construction expression

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

    同义词： mental synthesis

  • an interpretation of a text or action

    "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

    同义词： twist

  • 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"

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