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Meaning of construction

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  construction
      n 1: the act of constructing something; "during the construction
           we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of
           boats" [syn: {construction}, {building}]
      2: 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" [syn:
         {construction}, {grammatical construction}, {expression}]
         [ant: {misconstruction}]
      3: the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas
         into a congruous object of thought [syn: {construction},
         {mental synthesis}]
      4: 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" [syn: {structure}, {construction}]
      5: 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"
      6: an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an
         unsympathetic construction on his conduct" [syn:
         {construction}, {twist}]
      7: the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures
         or constructing new ones; "their main business is home
         construction"; "workers in the building trades" [syn:
         {construction}, {building}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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