dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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Sounds | kahnstrah'kshahn |
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Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2504 more rhymes in ahn at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The act of constructing or building something. |
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Examples | "during the construction we had to take a detour" |
Synonyms | building |
Category of | reface; wattle; frame, frame up; rebuild, reconstruct; groin; raise, erect, rear, set up, put up; prefabricate, preassemble |
Narrower | crenelation, crenellation; erecting, erection; house-raising; fabrication, assembly; dry walling; grading, leveling; road construction; shipbuilding; rustication |
Broader | creating from raw materials |
Verbs | construct |
Meaning | The commercial activity involved in constructing buildings. |
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Examples | "their main business is home construction" |
Synonyms | building |
Parts | masonry; painting, house painting; plumbing, plumbery; roofing; sheet-metal work; shingling |
Narrower | jerry-building |
Broader | commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business |
Meaning | A thing constructed. A complex construction or entity. |
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Examples | "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" |
Synonyms | structure |
Parts | foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure; plate; structural member |
Narrower | airdock, hangar, repair shed; altar; arcade, colonnade; arch; area; balcony; balcony; bascule; boarding; body; bridge, span; building, edifice; building complex, complex; catchment; coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix; colonnade; column, pillar; corner, quoin; cross; deathtrap; defensive structure, defense, defence; door; entablature; erection; establishment; floor, level, storey, story; fountain; house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastle; housing, lodging, living accommodations; hull; jungle gym; lamination; landing, landing place; lookout, observation tower, lookout station, observatory; masonry; memorial, monument; mound, hill; obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta; partition, divider; platform, weapons platform; porch; post and lintel; prefab; projection; public works; set-back, setoff, offset; shelter; shoebox; signboard, sign; stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium; superstructure; supporting structure; tower; transept; trestlework; vaulting; ways, shipway, slipway; wellhead; wind tunnel; balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance |
Broader | artifact, artefact |
Meaning | A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit. |
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Examples | "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner" |
Synonyms | grammatical construction, expression |
Narrower | adjunct; clause; complement; involution; phrase; predicator |
Broader | constituent, grammatical constituent |
Contrary | misconstruction |
Meaning | The creation of a construct. The process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought. |
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Synonyms | mental synthesis |
Narrower | crystallization; gestation |
Broader | thinking, thought, cerebration, intellection, mentation |
Meaning | An interpretation of a text or action. |
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Examples | "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct" |
Synonyms | twist |
Broader | interpretation |
Meaning | Drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem. |
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Examples | "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem" |
Narrower | quadrature |
Broader | mathematical process, mathematical operation, operation |
Verbs | construct |