construction

Noun

1. The process of constructing.
   • Construction is underway on the new bridge.
   • 89.2 million tons of RAP are used annually in new asphalt pavement construction in the United States. - (Can we date this quote?), “RAP Benefits for Pavement Owners”, in National Asphalt Pavement Association, archived...
2. Anything that has been constructed.
   • The engineer marvelled at his construction.
3. The trade of building structures.
   • He had worked in construction all his life.
4. A building, model or some other structure.
   • The office was a construction of steel and glass.
5. A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
   • "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.
6. The manner in which something is built.
   • A thing of simple construction.
   • Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that...
7. A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
8. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
   • American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.
9. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
   • He had considered sending Lucille away to stay with relations. But then people might have put the worst construction on it – might believe she had done something she shouldn't have. - 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of...
10. A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.