English to Persian Dictionary Online
Definition of "construction"

construction

Từ điển Collocation

construction noun

¹ roads/buildings

ADJ. gigantic, huge, large, massive massive constructions of bamboo and paper | basic, simple It has a basic construction of brick under a tiled roof. | complex | heavy the heavy construction industry | solid walls of solid construction | careful The drainage system needs careful construction. | brick, fibreglass, steel, timber, timber-frame, wooden a two-storey brick construction a schoolhouse of brick construction | bridge, building, canal, house/housing, railway, road Road and bridge construction is underway.

VERB + CONSTRUCTION begin, start | complete Construction of the new road has now been completed.

CONSTRUCTION + VERB be underway

CONSTRUCTION + NOUN industry, sector | company, firm, group | project, programme | contract | job | work | worker | site, yard | costs | materials | method, process, technique

PREP. during (the) ~ Major engineering challenges will be faced during construction. | under ~ A new factory is under construction.

² grammar

ADJ. grammatical, linguistic, sentence, syntactic | active, passive | adjectival, infinitive, predicative

³ interpretation

ADJ. literal | logical, sensible | proper, true ruling on the proper construction to be given to section 78 of the Act | strict a strict construction of the clause | ideological, social, theoretical changes in the social construction of marriage (= the meaning of marriage in society)

VERB + CONSTRUCTION give sth, put on sth What construction do you put on this letter (= what do you think it means)?

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Từ điển WordNet

n.

• the act of constructing something; building

  during the construction we had to take a detour

  his hobby was the building of boats

• the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; building

  their main business is home construction

  workers in the building trades

• a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; structure

  the structure consisted of a series of arches

  she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons

• a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; grammatical construction, expression

  I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner

• the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought; mental synthesis
• an interpretation of a text or action; twist

  they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct

• 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

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English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

constructions
ant.: demolition destruction ruination wreck