construction

英 [kən'strʌkʃ(ə)n] 美[kən'strʌkʃən]

• n. 建设；建筑物；解释；造句

1. the act of constructing or building something;

"during the construction we had to take a detour"

"his hobby was the building of boats"

2. the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings;

"their main business is home construction"

"workers in the building trades"

3. a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity;

"the structure consisted of a series of arches"

"she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"

4. 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"

5. the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought

6. an interpretation of a text or action;

"they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

7. 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"