construction
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kənˈstɹʌkʃən/
construction
- The process of constructing.
- Construction is underway on the new bridge.
- Anything that has been constructed.
- The engineer marvelled at his construction.
- The trade of building structures.
- He had worked in construction all his life.
- A building, model or some other structure.
- The office was a construction of steel and glass.
- (arts) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
- "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.
- The manner in which something is built.
- A thing of simple construction.
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
- American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.
- The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 95:
- He had considered sending Lucille away to stay with relations. But then people might have put the worst construction on it – might believe she had done something she shouldn't have.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 95:
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
- French: construction
- German: Bau
- Portuguese: construção, edificação
- Russian: строи́тельство
- Spanish: construcción
- Italian: costruzione
- Portuguese: construção, edifício, edificação
- German: Bau, Bauwesen
- Portuguese: construção, construção civil
- Russian: строи́тельство
- German: Bauwerk
- Portuguese: construção
- Russian: строе́ние
- Portuguese: obra
- German: Aufbau
- Portuguese: construção
- German: Satzbau
- Spanish: construcción
- German: Konstruktion
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