noun
                                                the act of constructing something
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                                                                                                        - during the construction we had to take a detour
- his hobby was the building of boats
 
                                                                                        
                                                noun
                                                a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
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                                                                                                        - I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner
 
                                                                                        
                                                noun
                                                the creation of a construct
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                                                                                                                                                                        mental synthesis
                                                                                                                                                            
                                                
                                                                                                Examples
                                                
                                                                                                        - the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
 
                                                                                        
                                                noun
                                                a thing constructed
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                                                                                                        - 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
 
                                                                                        
                                                noun
                                                drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
                                                
                                                                                                Examples
                                                
                                                                                                        - the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem
 
                                                                                        
                                                noun
                                                an interpretation of a text or action
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                                                                                                        - they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct
 
                                                                                        
                                                noun
                                                the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
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                                                                                                Examples
                                                
                                                                                                        - their main business is home construction
- workers in the building trades