Construction
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kənˈstrʌkʃən/
- Rhymes: -ʌkʃən
Origin
From Old French construction, from Latin cÅnstructiÅ, from cÅnstruere, present active infinitive of cÅnstruÅ.
Full definition of construction
Noun
construction
(plural constructions)- The process of constructing.Construction is underway on the new bridge.
- Anything that has been constructed.The engineer marvelled at his construction.
- The trade of building structuresHe had worked in construction all his life.
- A building, model or some other structureThe office was a construction of steel and glass
- (arts) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc."Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize
- The manner in which something is built.A thing of simple construction
- 1913, w, Lord Stranleigh Abroad Chapter 4, 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.
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- The act or result of construing the meaning of something.American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.
- The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 95: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.
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.