construction

Noun

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

• an interpretation of a text or action
  • they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

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

• 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
    

• the act of constructing something
  • during the construction we had to take a detour
    
  • his hobby was the building of boats
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  building , twist , structure , mental synthesis , grammatical construction , expression