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