Noun

• S: (n) construction, building (the act of constructing something) "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"
• S: (n) construction, grammatical construction, expression (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"
• S: (n) construction, mental synthesis (the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought)
• S: (n) structure, construction (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"
• S: (n) 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"
• S: (n) construction, twist (an interpretation of a text or action) "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"
• S: (n) construction, building (the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones) "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"