construction in WordNet English dictionary

1. the act of constructing something
   "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"
   construction  building 
   
2. the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
   "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"
   construction  building 
   
3. 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"
   construction 
   
4. 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"
   structure  construction 
   
5. the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
   construction  mental synthesis 
   
6. an interpretation of a text or action
   "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"
   construction  twist 
   
7. 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"
   construction  grammatical construction  expression