| 释义 |
Noun: construction kun'strúkshun- The act of constructing something
"during the construction we had to take a detour"
- building - 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"
- grammatical construction, expression - The creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
- mental synthesis - A thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
"she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
- structure - 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" - An interpretation of a text or action
"they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"
- twist - The commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
"their main business is home construction"
- building
Derived forms: constructions See also: construct Type of: artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], business, business enterprise, cerebration, commercial enterprise, constituent, creating from raw materials, grammatical constituent, intellection, interpretation, mathematical operation, mathematical process, mentation, operation, thinking, thought, thought process Antonym: misconstruction Encyclopedia: Construction Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union |