[noun] the act of constructing or building something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats" Synonyms:building
[noun] the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades" Synonyms:building
[noun] a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" Synonyms:structure
[noun] 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" Synonyms:grammatical expression
[noun] the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought Synonyms:mental synthesis
[noun] an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct" Synonyms:twist
[noun] 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"
