1.  construction(n = noun.act) building - the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"
is a kind of creating from raw materials
has particulars: crenelation, crenellation, erecting, erection, house-raising, assembly, fabrication, dry walling, grading, leveling, road construction, ship building, shipbuilding, rustication
Derived form verb construct₁

2.  construction(n = noun.communication) expression, grammatical construction - 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"
is a kind of constituent, grammatical constituent
has particulars: adjunct, clause, complement, involution, phrase, predicator
Antonym: misconstruction

3.  construction(n = noun.cognition) mental synthesis - the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought;
is a kind of cerebration, intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process
has particulars: crystallization, gestation

4.  construction(n = noun.artifact) structure - a thing constructed; 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"
is a kind of artefact, artifact
has parts: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure, plate, structural member
has particulars: airdock, hangar, repair shed, altar, arcade, colonnade, arch, area, balcony, balcony, bascule, boarding, body, bridge, span, building, edifice, building complex, complex, catchment, coil, helix, spiral, volute, whorl, colonnade, column, pillar, corner, quoin, cross, deathtrap, defence, defense, defensive structure, door, entablature, erection, establishment, false bottom, floor, level, storey, story, fountain, guide, card-house, cardcastle, cardhouse, house of cards, housing, living accommodations, lodging, hull, jungle gym, lamination, landing, landing place, lookout, lookout station, observation tower, observatory, masonry, memorial, monument, hill, mound, impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor, divider, partition, platform, weapons platform, porch, post and lintel, prefab, projection, public works, sail, offset, set-back, setoff, shelter, shoebox, sign, signboard, arena, bowl, sports stadium, stadium, superstructure, supporting structure, tower, transept, trestlework, vaulting, shipway, slipway, ways, wellhead, wind tunnel, honeycomb, balance, counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise

5.  construction(n = noun.act) - 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"
is a kind of mathematical operation, mathematical process, operation
has particulars: quadrature
Derived form verb construct₃

6.  construction(n = noun.communication) twist - an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"
is a kind of interpretation

7.  construction(n = noun.act) building - the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"
is a kind of business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise
has parts: masonry, house painting, painting, plumbery, plumbing, roofing, sheet-metal work, shingling
has particulars: jerry-building

1.  The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition. [1913 Webster]

2.  The form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement. [1913 Webster]
"An astrolabe of peculiar construction." [1913 Webster]

3.  The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. [1913 Webster]
"Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them." [1913 Webster]

4.  The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense. [1913 Webster]
"Any person . . . might, by the sort of construction that would be put on this act, become liable to the penalties of treason." [1913 Webster]
"Strictly, the term [construction] signifies determining the meaning and proper effect of language by a consideration of the subject matter and attendant circumstances in connection with the words employed." [1913 Webster]
"Interpretation properly precedes construction, but it does not go beyond the written text." [1913 Webster]

construction, n.
1 the act or a mode of constructing.
2 a thing constructed.
3 an interpretation or explanation (they put a generous construction on his act).
4 Gram. an arrangement of words according to syntactical rules.

Derivative:
constructional adj. constructionally adv.

Etymology:
ME f. OF f. L constructio -onis (as construct)

N  production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

N  form, figure, shape, conformation, configuration, make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib, stamp, type, cast, mold, fashion, contour, structure, plasmature, feature, lineament, turn, phase, posture, attitude, pose, morphism, isomorphism, forming, formation, figuration, efformation, sculpture, plasmation, formed, plastic, fictile, formative, fluid, plasmic, isomorphous, pleomorphic, protean, changeable.

N  texture, structure (form), organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction, framework, carcass, architecture, stratification, cleavage, substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma, constitution, staple, organism, organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology, angiography, adenography, texture, surface texture, intertexture, contexture, tissue, grain, web, surface, warp and woof, warp and weft, tooth, nap, flatness (smoothness), fineness of grain, coarseness of grain, dry goods, silk, satin, muslin, burlap, histology, structural, organic, anatomic, anatomical, textural, textile, fine grained, coarse grained, fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny, coarse, homespun, rough, gritty, smooth, smooth as silk, smooth as satin.

N  interpretation, definition, explanation, explication, solution, answer, rationale, plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation, meaning, translation, rendering, rendition, redition, literal translation, free translation, key, secret, clew, clavis, crib, pony, trot, exegesis, expounding, exposition, hermeneutics, comment, commentary, inference, illustration, exemplification, gloss, annotation, scholium, note, elucidation, dilucidation, eclaircissement, mot d'enigme, symptomatology, semiology, semeiology, semiotics, metoposcopy, physiognomy, paleography, oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptance, light, reading, lection, construction, version, equivalent, equivalent meaning, synonym, paraphrase, metaphrase, convertible terms, apposition, dictionary, polyglot, explanatory, expository, explicative, explicatory, exegetical, construable, polyglot, literal, paraphrastic, metaphrastic, consignificative, synonymous, equivalent, in explanation, that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words, literally, strictly speaking, in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer English, more simply.

construction industry, construction paper, construction worker, grammatical construction, road construction, under construction