1.the act of constructing or building something;
during the construction we had to take a detour
2.the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings;
their main business is home construction
3.a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity;
the structure consisted of a series of arches
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