construction (
http://definr.com/construction)
n 1: the act of constructing or building something; "during the
construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was
the building of boats" [syn:
building]
2: the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings;
"their main business is home construction"; "workers in
the building trades" [syn:
building]
3: 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"
[syn:
structure]
4: 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" [syn: {grammatical
construction},
expression] [ant:
misconstruction]
5: the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas
into a congruous object of thought [syn:
mental synthesis]
6: an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an
unsympathetic construction on his conduct" [syn:
twist]
7: 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"