construction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
geometry
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English construccioun, construction, from Old French construction, from Latin cōnstructiō, from cōnstruere.
Morphologically construct + -ion.
Base: construct
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: constructions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of constructing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Construction is underway on the new bridge.
89.2 million tons of RAP are used annually in new asphalt pavement construction in the United States.
gloss: Anything that has been constructed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The engineer marvelled at his construction.
gloss: The trade of building structures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had worked in construction all his life.
gloss: A building, model or some other structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The office was a construction of steel and glass.
gloss: A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.
gloss: The manner in which something is built.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A thing of simple construction.
Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
gloss: A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.
gloss: The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had considered sending Lucille away to stay with relations. But then people might have put the worst construction on it – might believe she had done something she shouldn't have.
gloss: A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: building
construal
Antonyms: destruction
Derived words: autoconstruction
ba construction
bioconstruction
Cayley-Dickson construction
coconstruction
constructional
construction barrel
construction battalion
construction drum
construction grammar
construction helmet
constructionism
constructionist
constructionistic
construction language
construction paper
construction permit
construction point
construction site
construction soldier
construction unit
construction worker
deconstruction
Kantor-Koecher-Tits construction
loose construction
malconstruction
megaconstruction
metaconstruction
midconstruction
misconstruction
narrow construction
nonconstruction
postconstruction
preconstruction
pregnant construction
reconstruction
rule of strict construction
sponge construction
strict construction
turn construction unit
under construction
visuoconstruction
Wythoff construction
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مَبْنَى
roman: mabnā
lang: Arabic
word: بِنَاء
roman: bināʔ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tikinti
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tikili
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bina
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡоролма
roman: qorolma
lang: Bulgarian
word: сгра́да
roman: sgráda
lang: Bulgarian
word: постро́йка
roman: postrójka
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 建築 /建筑
roman: jiànzhù
lang: Czech
word: konstrukce
lang: Esperanto
word: konstruaĵo
lang: Finnish
word: rakenne
lang: Finnish
word: rakennelma
lang: Georgian
word: შენობა
roman: šenoba
lang: German
word: Bauwerk
lang: Hebrew
word: מִבְנֶה
roman: mivné
lang: Hindi
word: इमारत
roman: imārat
lang: Hungarian
word: szerkezet
lang: Hungarian
word: konstrukció
lang: Irish
word: déantús
lang: Japanese
word: 建物
roman: tatemono
lang: Japanese
word: 建設物
roman: kensetsubutsu
lang: Japanese
word: ビル
roman: biru
lang: Latgalian
word: stateiba
lang: Latgalian
word: budaveiba
lang: Latvian
word: būve
lang: Polish
word: budowla
lang: Portuguese
word: construção
lang: Romanian
word: structură
lang: Russian
word: строе́ние
roman: strojénije
lang: Russian
word: построе́ние
roman: postrojénije
lang: Russian
word: констру́кция
roman: konstrúkcija
lang: Russian
word: постро́йка
roman: postrójka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: togail
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: констру̀кција
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: konstrùkcija
lang: Turkish
word: yapı
lang: Turkish
word: konstrüksiyon
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: یاپی
roman: yapı
lang: Urdu
word: عِمارَت
roman: 'imārat
lang: Welsh
word: adeilad
lang: Welsh
word: adeiladaeth