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Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun construction has 7 senses

construction(n = noun.act) building - the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"

is a kind of creating from raw materials

has particulars: crenelation, crenellation, erecting, erection, house-raising, assembly, fabrication, dry walling, grading, leveling, road construction, ship building, shipbuilding, rustication

Derived form verb construct₁

construction(n = noun.communication) expression, grammatical construction - 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"

has particulars: adjunct, clause, complement, involution, phrase, predicator

is a kind of constituent, grammatical constituent

Antonym: misconstruction

construction(n = noun.cognition) mental synthesis - the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought;

is a kind of cerebration, intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process

has particulars: crystallization, gestation

construction(n = noun.artifact) 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"

is a kind of artefact, artifact

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

has parts: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure, plate, structural member

construction(n = noun.act) - 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"

is a kind of

mathematical operation

mathematical process

operation

has particulars: quadrature

Derived form verb construct₃

construction(n = noun.communication) twist - an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

is a kind of interpretation

construction(n = noun.act) building - the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"

has parts: masonry, house painting, painting, plumbery, plumbing, roofing, sheet-metal work, shingling

is a kind of business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise

has particulars: jerry-building

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CIDE DICTIONARY

construction, n. [L. constructio: cf. F. construction.].

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition. [1913 Webster]
The form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement. [1913 Webster]
"An astrolabe of peculiar construction." [1913 Webster]
The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. [1913 Webster]
"Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them." [1913 Webster]
The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense. [1913 Webster]
"Any person . . . might, by the sort of construction that would be put on this act, become liable to the penalties of treason." [1913 Webster]

"Strictly, the term [construction] signifies determining the meaning and proper effect of language by a consideration of the subject matter and attendant circumstances in connection with the words employed." [1913 Webster]

"Interpretation properly precedes construction, but it does not go beyond the written text." [1913 Webster]

Construction of an equation (Math.), the drawing of such lines and figures as will represent geometrically the quantities in the equation, and their relations to each other. -- Construction train (Railroad), a train for transporting men and materials for construction or repairs.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

construction, n.
1 the act or a mode of constructing.
2 a thing constructed.
3 an interpretation or explanation (they put a generous construction on his act).
4 Gram. an arrangement of words according to syntactical rules.

Derivative

constructional adj. constructionally adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L constructio -onis (as construct)

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THESAURUS

construction

acronym, acrostic, adjectival phrase, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, assemblage, assembly, avyayibhava, back formation, build, building, buildup, casting, clause, clipped word, combination, composition, compound, conformation, conjugate, constitution, construct, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, definition, description, design, devising, diagnosis, dvandva, dvigu, edifice, elaboration, embodiment, endocentric compound, erection, establishment, exegesis, exocentric compound, explanation, explication, expose, exposition, expression, extraction, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, forging, form, format, formation, forming, formulation, frame, framing, getup, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, headed group, house, idiom, idiotism, incorporation, interpretation, junction, locution, machining, make, makeup, making, manner of speaking, manufacture, manufacturing, meaning, milling, mining, mixture, mold, molding, noun phrase, organic structure, organism, organization, packaged house, paragraph, paronym, pattern, patterning, peculiar expression, period, phrasal idiom, phrase, physique, piecing together, pile, plan, prefab, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, production, putting together, pyramid, raising, reading, refining, sentence, set phrase, setup, shape, shaping, skyscraper, smelting, spoonerism, standard phrase, structure, structuring, superstructure, syneresis, syntactic structure, synthesis, tatpurusha, tectonics, term, texture, tissue, tower, turn of expression, turn of phrase, usage, utterance, verb complex, verb phrase, verbalism, warp and woof, way of seeing, way of speaking, weave, web, word form, word-group, workmanship

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Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

Form

N form, figure, shape, conformation, configuration, make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib, stamp, type, cast, mold, fashion, contour, structure, plasmature, feature, lineament, turn, phase, posture, attitude, pose, morphism, isomorphism, forming, formation, figuration, efformation, sculpture, plasmation, formed, plastic, fictile, formative, fluid, plasmic, isomorphous, pleomorphic, protean, changeable.

Texture

N texture, structure (form), organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction, framework, carcass, architecture, stratification, cleavage, substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma, constitution, staple, organism, organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology, angiography, adenography, texture, surface texture, intertexture, contexture, tissue, grain, web, surface, warp and woof, warp and weft, tooth, nap, flatness (smoothness), fineness of grain, coarseness of grain, dry goods, silk, satin, muslin, burlap, histology, structural, organic, anatomic, anatomical, textural, textile, fine grained, coarse grained, fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny, coarse, homespun, rough, gritty, smooth, smooth as silk, smooth as satin.

Interpretation

N interpretation, definition, explanation, explication, solution, answer, rationale, plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation, meaning, translation, rendering, rendition, redition, literal translation, free translation, key, secret, clew, clavis, crib, pony, trot, exegesis, expounding, exposition, hermeneutics, comment, commentary, inference, illustration, exemplification, gloss, annotation, scholium, note, elucidation, dilucidation, eclaircissement, mot d'enigme, symptomatology, semiology, semeiology, semiotics, metoposcopy, physiognomy, paleography, oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptance, light, reading, lection, construction, version, equivalent, equivalent meaning, synonym, paraphrase, metaphrase, convertible terms, apposition, dictionary, polyglot, explanatory, expository, explicative, explicatory, exegetical, construable, polyglot, literal, paraphrastic, metaphrastic, consignificative, synonymous, equivalent, in explanation, that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words, literally, strictly speaking, in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer English, more simply.

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