Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CONSTRUCTION

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Definitions of CONSTRUCTION

1. The process of constructing.
2. Anything that has been constructed.
3. The trade of building structures.
4. A building, model or some other structure.
5. The manner in which something is built.
6. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
7. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
8. (arts) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
9. (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
10. (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

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Examples of Using CONSTRUCTION in a Sentence

• In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used to refer to any kind of earthen construction, or various architectural styles like Pueblo Revival or Territorial Revival.
• Armenia is pursuing funding from the Asian Development Bank to launch the construction of this infrastructure project.
• The river is still used for transportation of farming produce; however, it is not as important as it once was due to the construction of roads and railways.
• He is also well known for his construction of the Blue Mosque, one of the most famous mosques in Turkey.
• While there is evidence that the hill was inhabited as early as the 4th (millennium?)BC, it was Pericles (–429 BC) in the fifth century BC who coordinated the construction of the buildings whose present remains are the site's most important ones, including the Parthenon, the Propylaea, the Erechtheion and the Temple of Athena Nike.
• In 1940, Russian construction workers found ancient ruins during the construction of a highway between Abakan and Askiz.
• The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, "The Accrington NORI" (iron), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower and the Haworth Art Gallery which holds Europe's largest collection of Tiffany glass.
• Steady growth in tourism receipts and a boom in construction of new hotels, resorts, and residences had led to solid GDP growth for many years.
• As of 2024, the country had 879 kilometers of highways and another 117 km under construction.
• The primary intention for the Wall's construction was to prevent East German citizens from fleeing to the West.
• It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length.
• A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.
• Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.
• Climbing is done for locomotion, sporting recreation, for competition, and is also done in trades that rely on ascension, such as construction and military operations.
• In October 2011 the State of Qatar launched a special program for the construction of a wireless network to interconnect the three islands of the archipelago, by means of low cost, repeatable technology.
• Naval construction battalions are tasked with Camp David construction and send detachments as needed.
• Former Cleveland Browns head coach Paul Brown began planning for the creation of the Bengals franchise in 1965, and Cincinnati's city council approved the construction of Riverfront Stadium in 1966.
• A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together.
• It was renamed after the construction of a chapel holding a replica of the Virgen de Copacabana, the patron saint of Bolivia.
• A military engineering vehicle is a vehicle built for construction work or for the transportation of combat engineers on the battlefield.
• Construction of the six prototypes began in February 1965, and the first flight took off from Toulouse on 2 March 1969.
• Cholistan was a center for caravan trade, leading to the construction of numerous forts in the medieval period to protect trade routes - of which the Derawar Fort is the best-preserved example.
• A point is constructible if it can be produced as one of the points of a compass and straightedge construction (an endpoint of a line segment or crossing point of two lines or circles), starting from a given unit length segment.
• The terrain and climate of the Congo Basin present serious barriers to road and rail construction, and the distances are enormous across this vast country.
• This is driven by a number of factors, alone or in combination, such as drought, climatic shifts, tillage for agriculture, overgrazing and deforestation for fuel or construction materials.

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