Engelsk substantiv: construction | |||
1. | construction (om handling) the act of constructing something | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | During the construction we had to take a detour. His hobby was the building of boats. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | building | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | creating from raw materials | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | assembly, crenelation, crenellation, dry walling, erecting, erection, fabrication, grading, house-raising, leveling, road construction, rustication, ship building, shipbuilding | ||
Forekomster i samme kategori | erect, frame, frame up, groin, preassemble, prefabricate, put up, raise, rear, rebuild, reconstruct, reface, set up, wattle | ||
2. | construction (om kommunikasjon) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | expression, grammatical construction | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | constituent, grammatical constituent | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | adjunct, clause, complement, involution, phrase, predicator | ||
Uttrykk med motsatt betydning (antonymer) | misconstruction | ||
3. | construction (om erkjendelse) the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | mental synthesis | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | cerebration, intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | crystallization, gestation | ||
4. | construction (om gjenstand) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The structure consisted of a series of arches. She wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | structure | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | artefact, artifact | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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 | ||
Omfatter disse spesifikke uttrykk | base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, plate, structural member, substructure, understructure | ||
5. | construction (om handling) drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | mathematical operation, mathematical process, operation | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | quadrature | ||
6. | construction (om kommunikasjon) an interpretation of a text or action | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | They put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | twist | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | interpretation | ||
7. | construction (om handling) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Their main business is home construction. Workers in the building trades. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | building | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | jerry-building | ||
Omfatter disse spesifikke uttrykk | house painting, masonry, painting, plumbery, plumbing, roofing, sheet-metal work, shingling | ||