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 Definitions of construction  [ənˈstrʌk ʃən]  

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Definition of 'construction' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) construction
the act, process, or art of constructing.

2.  construction
the way in which a thing is constructed.

3.  construction
something that is constructed; structure.

4.  construction
the occupation or industry of building.

5.  construction
the arrangement of two or more words or morphemes in a grammatical unit.

6.  construction
a group of words or morphemes consisting of two or more forms arranged in a particular way.

7.  construction
an explanation or interpretation, as of a law, a text, or an action.

Etymology:  (1350–1400; ME (< MF) < L)

Definition of 'construction' Princeton's WordNet 

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 single unit
"I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"

3. (noun) construction, mental synthesis
the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought

4. (noun) structure, construction
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"

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 commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
"their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"


Definition of 'construction' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) construction
the process of building
a building under construction; the construction of the new mall

2.  construction
the business of making buildings, bridges, etc.
Anders works in construction.; his construction business; construction workers

3.  construction
the way in which words are arranged in a particular language
sentence construction; simple Spanish constructions


Definition of 'construction' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) construction
the process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition

2. (noun) construction
the form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement

3. (noun) construction
the arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement

4. (noun) construction
the method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense


Translation of 'construction' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (a way of) constructing or putting together
The bridge is still under construction.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: in aanbou, in uitvoering Arabic flag Arabic: بِناء، تَشييد Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: строителство
Brazilian flag Brazilian: construção Czech flag Czech: stavba German flag German: der Bau
Danish flag Danish: bygning; opførelse; konst Greek flag Greek: κατασκευή Spanish flag Spanish: construcción
Estonian flag Estonian: ehitus Farsi flag Farsi: ساخت Finnish flag Finnish: rakentaminen
French flag French: construction Hebrew flag Hebrew: בְּנִיָה @@@בְּנִייָה$$$ Hindi flag Hindi: निर्माण
Croatian flag Croatian: sastav, izgradnja, konstr Hungarian flag Hungarian: építés Indonesian flag Indonesian: pembangunan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: í byggingu Italian flag Italian: costruzione Japanese flag Japanese: 建設
Korean flag Korean: 건설 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: statyba Latvian flag Latvian: celtniecība
Malay flag Malay: pembinaan Dutch flag Dutch: bouw Norwegian flag Norwegian: bygging, anlegg; (under)
Polish flag Polish: budowa Persian flag Persian: ساخت Pashto flag Pashto: جوړښت، معمارى، ودانى، دوا
Portuguese flag Portuguese: construção Romanian flag Romanian: construcţie Russian flag Russian: строительство
Slovak flag Slovak: stavba Slovenian flag Slovenian: gradnja Serbian flag Serbian: izgradnja
Swedish flag Swedish: [upp]byggande Thai flag Thai: การก่อสร้าง Turkish flag Turkish: inşa
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 建造,建構 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: будівництво; будування Urdu flag Urdu: تعمير
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự xây dựng Chinese flag Chinese: 建造

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