Engelsk navneord: 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. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | building | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | creating from raw materials | ||
Mere specifikke termer | assembly, crenelation, crenellation, dry walling, erecting, erection, fabrication, grading, house-raising, leveling, road construction, rustication, ship building, shipbuilding | ||
Indenfor samme emneområde | erect, frame, frame up, groin, preassemble, prefabricate, put up, raise, rear, rebuild, reconstruct, reface, set up, wattle | ||
2. | construction (om kommunikation) 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. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | expression, grammatical construction | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | constituent, grammatical constituent | ||
Mere specifikke termer | adjunct, clause, complement, involution, phrase, predicator | ||
Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | misconstruction | ||
3. | construction (om erkendelse) the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | mental synthesis | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | cerebration, intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process | ||
Mere specifikke termer | crystallization, gestation | ||
4. | construction (om genstand) 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. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | structure | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | artefact, artifact | ||
Mere specifikke termer | 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 specifikke termer | 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 specifikke termer | mathematical operation, mathematical process, operation | ||
Mere specifikke termer | quadrature | ||
6. | construction (om kommunikation) an interpretation of a text or action | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | They put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | twist | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | 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. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | building | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
Mere specifikke termer | jerry-building | ||
Omfatter disse specifikke termer | house painting, masonry, painting, plumbery, plumbing, roofing, sheet-metal work, shingling | ||