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| n. (act) | 1. building, construction | the act of constructing something.; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats" |
| ~ creating from raw materials | the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it. |
| ~ crenelation, crenellation | the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows. |
| ~ erecting, erection | the act of building or putting up. |
| ~ house-raising | construction by a group of neighbors. |
| ~ assembly, fabrication | the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery). |
| ~ dry walling | the activity of building stone walls without mortar. |
| ~ leveling, grading | changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface. |
| ~ road construction | the construction of roads. |
| ~ ship building, shipbuilding | the construction of ships. |
| ~ rustication | the construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner. |
| ~ reface | provide with a new facing.; "The building was refaced with beautiful stones" |
| ~ wattle | build of or with wattle. |
| ~ frame up, frame | construct by fitting or uniting parts together. |
| ~ rebuild, reconstruct | build again.; "The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb" |
| ~ groin | build with groins.; "The ceiling was groined" |
| ~ erect, put up, set up, rear, raise | construct, build, or erect.; "Raise a barn" |
| ~ preassemble, prefabricate | to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings. |
| n. (communication) | 2. construction, expression, grammatical construction | 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" |
| ~ adjunct | a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence. |
| ~ grammatical constituent, constituent | (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction. |
| ~ clause | (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence. |
| ~ complement | a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction. |
| ~ involution | a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction. |
| ~ phrase | an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence. |
| ~ predicator | an expression that predicates. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. construction, mental synthesis | the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought. |
| ~ cerebration, intellection, mentation, thinking, thought process, thought | the process of using your mind to consider something carefully.; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought" |
| ~ crystallization | a mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation. |
| ~ gestation | the conception and development of an idea or plan. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. construction, structure | 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" |
| ~ artefact, artifact | a man-made object taken as a whole. |
| ~ airdock, hangar, repair shed | a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained. |
| ~ altar | a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made. |
| ~ arcade, colonnade | a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns. |
| ~ arch | (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it. |
| ~ area | a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function.; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants" |
| ~ balcony | a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet. |
| ~ balcony | an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium. |
| ~ bascule | a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw). |
| ~ boarding | a structure of boards. |
| ~ body | the external structure of a vehicle.; "the body of the car was badly rusted" |
| ~ bridge, span | a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.. |
| ~ building, edifice | a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place.; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" |
| ~ building complex, complex | a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures. |
| ~ catchment | a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area). |
| ~ coil, helix, volute, whorl, spiral | a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops.; "a coil of rope" |
| ~ colonnade | structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns. |
| ~ pillar, column | a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument). |
| ~ quoin, corner | (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone. |
| ~ cross | a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece. |
| ~ deathtrap | any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed. |
| ~ defensive structure, defence, defense | a structure used to defend against attack.; "the artillery battered down the defenses" |
| ~ door | a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road).; "the office next door"; "they live two doors up the street from us" |
| ~ entablature | (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof. |
| ~ erection | a structure that has been erected. |
| ~ establishment | a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence. |
| ~ false bottom | a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom). |
| ~ storey, floor, story, level | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale.; "what level is the office on?" |
| ~ understructure, base, groundwork, substructure, foundation, fundament, foot | lowest support of a structure.; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" |
| ~ fountain | a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises. |
| ~ guide | a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something. |
| ~ card-house, cardcastle, cardhouse, house of cards | an unstable construction with playing cards.; "he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed" |
| ~ housing, living accommodations, lodging | structures collectively in which people are housed. |
| ~ hull | the frame or body of ship. |
| ~ jungle gym | a structure of vertical and horizontal rods where children can climb and play. |
| ~ lamination | a layered structure. |
| ~ landing place, landing | structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods. |
| ~ lookout station, observation tower, observatory, lookout | a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings. |
| ~ masonry | structure built of stone or brick by a mason. |
| ~ monument, memorial | a structure erected to commemorate persons or events. |
| ~ hill, mound | structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones.; "they built small mounds to hide behind" |
| ~ impedimenta, obstruction, impediment, obstructer, obstructor | any structure that makes progress difficult. |
| ~ partition, divider | a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another). |
| ~ plate | structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage. |
| ~ weapons platform, platform | any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons. |
| ~ porch | a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance. |
| ~ post and lintel | a structure consisting of vertical beams (posts) supporting a horizontal beam (lintel). |
| ~ prefab | a prefabricated structure. |
| ~ projection | any structure that branches out from a central support. |
| ~ public works | structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use. |
| ~ sail | any structure that resembles a sail. |
| ~ set-back, setoff, offset | structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly. |
| ~ shelter | a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger. |
| ~ shoebox | a structure resembling a shoebox (as a rectangular building or a cramped room or compartment). |
| ~ signboard, sign | structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted.; "the highway was lined with signboards" |
| ~ sports stadium, stadium, arena, bowl | a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments. |
| ~ structural member | support that is a constituent part of any structure or building. |
| ~ superstructure | structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck. |
| ~ supporting structure | a structure that serves to support something. |
| ~ tower | a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building. |
| ~ transept | structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church; crosses the nave at right angles. |
| ~ trestlework | a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g.. |
| ~ vaulting | (architecture) a vaulted structure.; "arches and vaulting" |
| ~ shipway, slipway, ways | structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired. |
| ~ wellhead | a structure built over a well. |
| ~ wind tunnel | a structure resembling a tunnel where air is blown at known velocities for testing parts of aircraft. |
| ~ honeycomb | a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae. |
| ~ equipoise, counterbalance, equilibrium, balance | equality of distribution. |
| n. (act) | 5. construction | 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" |
| ~ mathematical operation, mathematical process, operation | (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods.; "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic" |
| ~ quadrature | the construction of a square having the same area as some other figure. |
| n. (communication) | 6. construction, twist | an interpretation of a text or action.; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct" |
| ~ interpretation | an explanation that results from interpreting something.; "the report included his interpretation of the forensic evidence" |
| n. (act) | 7. building, construction | the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones.; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades" |
| ~ masonry | the craft of a mason. |
| ~ house painting, painting | the occupation of a house painter.; "house painting was the only craft he knew" |
| ~ plumbery, plumbing | the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building). |
| ~ roofing | the craft of a roofer. |
| ~ sheet-metal work | the craft of doing sheet metal work (as in ventilation systems). |
| ~ shingling | the laying on of shingles.; "shingling is a craft very different from carpentry" |
| ~ business enterprise, business, commercial enterprise | the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects.; "computers are now widely used in business" |
| ~ jerry-building | construction of inferior buildings for a quick profit. |
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