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noun : CONSTRUCTION
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats" ;
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2. (
) 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" ;
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3. (
) the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought ;
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4. (
) 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" ;
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5. (
) 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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6. (
) an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct" ;
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7. (
) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades" ;
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