construction
英英释意
- 1. the act of constructing or building something;
- "during the construction we had to take a detour"
- "his hobby was the building of boats"
- 2. the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings;
- "their main business is home construction"
- "workers in the building trades"
- 3. a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity;
- "the structure consisted of a series of arches"
- "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
- 4. 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"
- 5. the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
- 6. an interpretation of a text or action;
- "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"
- 7. 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"