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English noun: construction | |||
| 1. | construction (act) the act of constructing something | ||
| Samples | During the construction we had to take a detour. His hobby was the building of boats. | ||
| Synonyms | building | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | creating from raw materials | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | assembly, crenelation, crenellation, dry walling, erecting, erection, fabrication, grading, house-raising, leveling, road construction, rustication, ship building, shipbuilding | ||
| Domain category members | erect, frame, frame up, groin, preassemble, prefabricate, put up, raise, rear, rebuild, reconstruct, reface, set up, wattle | ||
| 2. | construction (communication) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | ||
| Samples | I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner. | ||
| Synonyms | expression, grammatical construction | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | constituent, grammatical constituent | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | adjunct, clause, complement, involution, phrase, predicator | ||
| Antonyms | misconstruction | ||
| 3. | construction (cognition) the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought | ||
| Synonyms | mental synthesis | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cerebration, intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | crystallization, gestation | ||
| 4. | construction (artifact) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | ||
| Samples | The structure consisted of a series of arches. She wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons. | ||
| Synonyms | structure | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | artefact, artifact | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | airdock, altar, arcade, arch, area, arena, balance, balcony, balcony, bascule, boarding, body, bowl, bridge, building, building complex, card-house, cardcastle, cardhouse, catchment, coil, colonnade, colonnade, column, complex, corner, counterbalance, cross, deathtrap, defence, defense, defensive structure, divider, door, edifice, entablature, equilibrium, equipoise, erection, establishment, false bottom, floor, fountain, guide, hangar, helix, hill, honeycomb, house of cards, housing, hull, impediment, impedimenta, jungle gym, lamination, landing, landing place, level, living accommodations, lodging, lookout, lookout station, masonry, memorial, monument, mound, observation tower, observatory, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor, offset, partition, pillar, platform, porch, post and lintel, prefab, projection, public works, quoin, repair shed, sail, set-back, setoff, shelter, shipway, shoebox, sign, signboard, slipway, span, spiral, sports stadium, stadium, storey, story, superstructure, supporting structure, tower, transept, trestlework, vaulting, volute, ways, weapons platform, wellhead, whorl, wind tunnel | ||
| Part holonym | base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, plate, structural member, substructure, understructure | ||
| 5. | construction (act) drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem | ||
| Samples | The assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | mathematical operation, mathematical process, operation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | quadrature | ||
| 6. | construction (communication) an interpretation of a text or action | ||
| Samples | They put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct. | ||
| Synonyms | twist | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | interpretation | ||
| 7. | construction (act) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | ||
| Samples | Their main business is home construction. Workers in the building trades. | ||
| Synonyms | building | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | jerry-building | ||
| Part holonym | house painting, masonry, painting, plumbery, plumbing, roofing, sheet-metal work, shingling | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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