1. (noun)construction, building the act of constructing something
"during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"
2. (noun)construction, grammatical construction, expression a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a singleunit "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"
4. (noun)structure, construction a thing constructed; a complexentity constructed of many parts "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
5. (noun)construction 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. (noun)construction, twist an interpretation of a text or action "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"
7. (noun)construction, building the commercialactivity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
"their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"
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