construction
英 [kən'strʌkʃ(ə)n]
美[kən'strʌkʃən]
	    - n. 建设;建筑物;解释;造句
 
英英释意
- 1. the act of constructing or building something;
 - "during the construction we had to take a detour"
 - "his hobby was the building of boats"
 
- 2. the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings;
 - "their main business is home construction"
 - "workers in the building trades"
 
- 3. a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity;
 - "the structure consisted of a series of arches"
 - "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
 
- 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"