CONSTRUCTION

The act of constructing something

Example: "During the construction we had to take a detour"

• building  12

• creating from raw materials

• bricolage  14
• crenelation  13
• crenellation  14
• erecting  11
• • house-raising
  • assembly  15
  • fabrication  18
  • dry walling
  • grading  10
  • leveling  12
  • road construction
  • ship building
  • shipbuilding  21
  • rustication  13
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A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit

Example: "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"

• expression  19
• grammatical construction

• constituent  13
• grammatical constituent

• adjunct  17
• clause  8
• complement  18
• involution  13
• • phrase  11
  • predicator  15
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• misconstruction  21

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

• mental synthesis

• cerebration  15
• intellection  14
• mentation  11
• thinking  16
• thought  14
• thought process

• crystallization  29
• gestation  10

A thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts

Example: "The structure consisted of a series of arches"

• structure  11

• artefact  13
• artifact  13

• airdock
• hangar  10
• repair shed
• altar  5
• • arcade  9
  • colonnade  12
  • arch  9
  • area  4
  • balcony  14
  • balcony  14
  • bascule  11
  • boarding  12
  • body  10
  • bridge  10
  • span  6
  • building  12
  • edifice  13
  • building complex
  • complex  20
  • catchment  18
  • coil  6
  • helix  15
  • spiral  8
  • volute  9
  • whorl  11
  • colonnade  12
  • column  10
  • pillar  8
  • corner  8
  • quoin  14
  • cross  7
  • deathtrap  15
  • defence  13
  • defense  11
  • defensive structure
  • door  5
  • entablature  13
  • establishment  20
  • false bottom
  • floor  8
  • level  8
  • storey  9
  • story  8
  • fountain  11
  • guide  7
  • card-house
  • cardcastle  15
  • cardhouse
  • house of cards
  • housing  11
  • living accommodations
  • lodging  10
  • hull  7
  • jungle gym
  • lamination  12
  • landing  9
  • landing place
  • lookout  11
  • lookout station
  • observation tower
  • observatory  19
  • masonry  12
  • memorial  12
  • monument  12
  • hill  7
  • mound  8
  • impediment  17
  • impedimenta  18
  • obstructer  14
  • obstruction  15
  • obstructor  14
  • divider  12
  • partition  11
  • platform  15
  • weapons platform
  • porch  12
  • post and lintel
  • prefab  13
  • projection  21
  • public works
  • sail  4
  • offset  12
  • set-back
  • setoff  12
  • shelter  10
  • shoebox  19
  • sign  5
  • signboard  13
  • arena  5
  • bowl  9
  • sports stadium
  • stadium  10
  • superstructure  18
  • supporting structure
  • tower  8
  • transept  10
  • trestlework  18
  • vaulting  12
  • shipway  18
  • slipway  15
  • ways  10
  • wellhead  15
  • wind tunnel
  • honeycomb  21
  • balance  11
  • counterbalance  20
  • equilibrium  24
  • equipoise  20
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Drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem

Example: "The assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the pythagorean theorem"

• mathematical operation
• mathematical process
• operation  11

• quadrature  20

An interpretation of a text or action

Example: "They put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

• twist  8

The commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones

Example: "Their main business is home construction"

• building  12

• business  10
• business enterprise
• commercial enterprise

• jerry-building