construction

English

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Etymology

FromMiddle Englishconstruccioun,construction,fromOld Frenchconstruction,fromLatincōnstructiō,fromcōnstruere,present active infinitive ofcōnstruō.

Morphologicallyconstruct+‎-ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/kənˈstɹʌkʃən/

• Audio(US):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ʌkʃən

Noun

construction(countableanduncountable,pluralconstructions)

2. Theprocessofconstructing.

   Constructionis underway on the new bridge.

4. Anything that has been constructed.

   The engineer marvelled at hisconstruction.

6. Thetradeofbuildingstructures.

   He had worked inconstructionall his life.

8. A building,modelor some otherstructure.

   The office was aconstructionof steel and glass.

10. (art)A (usually non-representational) structure, such as acollageetc.

    "Constructionin string and clockwork "took first prize.

12. Themannerin which something is built.

    A thing of simpleconstruction.

    • 1913,Robert Barr,chapter 4, inLord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[1]:

      Nothing could be more business-like than theconstructionof 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 had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.

14. (grammar)Agroupofwordsarranged to form ameaningfulphrase.
16. The act or result ofconstruingthe meaning of something.

    American conservatives tend to favor strictconstructionof the Constitution.

18. Themeaningorinterpretationof a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
    • 1992,Hilary Mantel,A Place of Greater Safety,Harper Perennial, published2007,page95:

      He had considered sending Lucille away to stay with relations. But then people might have put the worstconstructionon it – might believe she had done something she shouldn't have.

20. (geometry)A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with astraightedgeandcompass.

Synonyms

• building
• construal

Antonyms

• destruction

Derived terms

• autoconstruction
• ba construction
• bioconstruction
• Cayley-Dickson construction
• coconstruction
• constructional
• construction barrel
• construction battalion
• construction grammar
• construction helmet
• constructionism
• constructionist
• constructionistic
• construction paper
• construction permit
• construction point
• construction site
• construction soldier
• construction unit
• construction worker
• deconstruction
• Kantor-Koecher-Tits construction
• loose construction
• malconstruction
• megaconstruction
• metaconstruction
• midconstruction
• misconstruction
• narrow construction
• nonconstruction
• postconstruction
• preconstruction
• pregnant construction
• reconstruction
• rule of strict construction
• strict construction
• turn construction unit
• under construction
• visuoconstruction
• Wythoff construction

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *strew-(0 c, 24 e)

Descendants

• →Mongolian:констракшн(konstrakšn)

Translations

process of constructing

• Albanian:konstruksion(sq)f
• Arabic:بِنَاء(ar)f(bināʔ)
• Armenian:շինարարություն(hy)(šinararutʻyun),կառուցում(hy)(kaṙucʻum)
• Azerbaijani:tikinti(az),inşaat(az),tikmə,tikilmə
• Bashkir:төҙөү(töźöw),төҙөлөш(töźölöş)
• Belarusian:будава́ннеn(budavánnje)
• Bulgarian:стро́ителство(bg)n(stróitelstvo)
• Catalan:construcció(ca)f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Kiến thiết／Kiến thiết(zh)(jiànshè)

• Czech:stavba(cs)f
• Esperanto:konstruo,konstruado
• Finnish:rakentaminen(fi),rakennustyöt(fi)pl
• French:construction(fr)f
• Galician:construción(gl)f,feituraf
• Georgian:მშენებლობა(mšenebloba)
• German:Bau(de)m,Bauarbeitf(mostly in the plural in this sense)
• Greek:κατασκευή(el)f(kataskeví)
• Gujarati:બાંધકામ(bā̃dhkām)
• Hebrew:בנייה(he)f(bni'a)
• Hindi:निर्माण(hi)(nirmāṇ)
• Hungarian:építés(hu),építkezés(hu)
• Ido:konstruktado(io)
• Indonesian:pembangunan(id)
• Japanese:Kiến thiết(ja)(けんせつ, kensetsu)
• Khmer:សំណង់(km)(saamnng)
• Korean:건설( kiến thiết )(ko)(geonseol)
• Lao:ຊາງລໍ(sāng lǭ),ການກໍ່ສ້າງ(kān kǭ sāng)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic:барилга(mn)(barilga)

  Mongolian:ᠪᠠᠷᠢᠯᠭ᠎ᠠ(barilg-a)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:konstruksjon(no)m

  Nynorsk:konstruksjonm

• Occitan:construccion(oc)f
• Oromo:ijaarsa
• Polish:budowa(pl)f,konstrukcja(pl)f
• Portuguese:construção(pt)f,edificação(pt)f
• Romanian:construire(ro)f,clădire(ro)f
• Russian:строи́тельство(ru)n(stroítelʹstvo),строе́ние(ru)n(strojénije),построе́ние(ru)n(postrojénije),констру́кция(ru)f(konstrúkcija),стро́йка(ru)f(strójka),сооружение(ru)n(sooruženije)
• Scottish Gaelic:togailf
• Serbo-Croatian:konstrukcija(sh)f
• Spanish:construcción(es)f,edificación(es)f,cimentaciónf
• Swedish:byggnadsverksamhetc
• Tagalog:konstruksyon,sayari
• Thai:การก่อสร้าง(th)(gaan-gɔ̀ɔ-sâang)
• Turkish:inşa(tr),inşaat(tr),konstrüksiyon(tr),yapım(tr)
• Ukrainian:будування(uk)n(buduvannja),побудо́ваf(pobudóva),будо́ва(uk)f(budóva)
• Welsh:adeiladu(cy)m

anything constructed

• Bashkir:ҡоролма(qorolma)
• Bulgarian:постройка(bg)f(postrojka)
• Finnish:rakennelma(fi)
• Galician:construción(gl)f
• German:Bauwerk(de)n
• Greek:κατασκευή(el)f(kataskeví)
• Hungarian:építmény(hu),felépítmény(hu)
• Italian:costruzione(it)f
• Lao:ການກໍ່ສ້າງ(kān kǭ sāng)
• Polish:budynek(pl),budowla(pl),konstrukcja(pl)f
• Portuguese:construção(pt)f,edifício(pt)m,edificação(pt)f
• Romanian:construcție(ro)
• Tagalog:sinayari
• Ukrainian:будо́ва(uk)f(budóva),буді́вля(uk)f(budívlja)
• Welsh:adeilad(cy)m

trade of building

• Armenian:շինարարություն(hy)(šinararutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani:inşaatçılıq
• Bashkir:төҙөлөш(töźölöş)
• Bulgarian:строителство(bg)n(stroitelstvo)
• Catalan:construcció(ca)f
• Czech:stavebnictví(cs)n
• Finnish:rakennusala(fi),rakentaminen(fi)
• Galician:construción(gl)f
• Georgian:მშენებლობა(mšenebloba)
• German:Bau(de)m,Bauwesen(de)n
• Greek:οικοδομική(el)f(oikodomikí)
• Gujarati:બાંધકામ(bā̃dhkām)
• Hebrew:בניין(he)m(binian)
• Hungarian:építőipar(hu)
• Japanese:Kiến trúc nghiệp giới(けんちくぎょうかい, kenchiku-gyōkai)
• Kabuverdianu:óbra
• Mongolian:констракшн(konstrakšn)
• Portuguese:construção(pt)f,construção civil(pt)f
• Romanian:clădire(ro)f,construire(ro)f
• Russian:строи́тельство(ru)n(stroítelʹstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:građevinarstvo(sh)n
• Tagalog:sayari
• Welsh:adeiladu(cy)m

structure

• Arabic:مَبْنَى(ar)m(mabnā),بِنَاء(ar)f(bināʔ)
• Azerbaijani:tikinti(az),tikili(az),bina(az)
• Bashkir:ҡоролма(qorolma)
• Bulgarian:сграда(bg)f(sgrada),постройка(bg)f(postrojka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Kiến trúc／Kiến trúc(zh)(jiànzhù)

• Czech:konstrukce(cs)f
• Esperanto:konstruaĵo
• Finnish:rakenne(fi),rakennelma(fi)
• Georgian:შენობა(šenoba)
• German:Bauwerk(de)n
• Hebrew:מבנה(he)m(mivne)
• Hindi:इमारत(hi)f(imārat)
• Hungarian:szerkezet(hu),konstrukció(hu)
• Japanese:Kiến vật(ja)(たてもの, tatemono),Kiến thiết vật(けんせつぶつ, kensetsu-butsu),ビル(ja)(biru)
• Latgalian:stateiba,budaveiba
• Latvian:būve
• Polish:budowla(pl)f
• Portuguese:construção(pt)
• Romanian:structură(ro)
• Russian:строе́ние(ru)n(strojénije),построе́ние(ru)n(postrojénije),констру́кция(ru)f(konstrúkcija),постро́йка(ru)f(postrójka)
• Scottish Gaelic:togailf
• Serbo-Croatian:konstrukcija(sh)f
• Turkish:yapı(tr),konstrüksiyon(tr)
• Urdu:عمارتf(imārat)
• Welsh:adeilad(cy)m,adeiladaethf

artistic composition

• Bulgarian:конструкция(bg)f(konstrukcija)
• Finnish:konstruktio(fi)
• Georgian:კონსტრუქცია(ka)(ḳonsṭrukcia)
• Portuguese:obra(pt)f
• Romanian:operă(ro)f,operă artisticăf

manner in which something is built

• Bulgarian:строеж(bg)m(stroež)
• Finnish:rakenne(fi)
• German:Aufbau(de)m
• Greek:κατασκευή(el)f(kataskeví)
• Polish:konstrukcja(pl)f
• Portuguese:construção(pt)f
• Serbo-Croatian:konstrukcija(sh)f
• Ukrainian:констру́кціяf(konstrúkcija),побудо́ваf(pobudóva),будо́ва(uk)f(budóva)

grammar

• Catalan:construcció(ca)f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Cấu thức／Cấu thức(gòushì)

• Finnish:rakenne(fi)
• Galician:construción(gl)f
• German:Satzbau(de)m
• Hungarian:szerkezet(hu)
• Japanese:Cấu văn(ja)(こうぶん, kōbun)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic:хам бүтэц(xam bütec)

  Mongolian:ᠬᠠᠮ
  ᠪᠦᠲᠦᠴᠡ(qam bütüče)

• Spanish:construcción(es)f
• Ukrainian:констру́кціяf(konstrúkcija)
• Welsh:cystrawenf

act or result of construing the meaning of something

• German:Auslegung(de)f
• Hungarian:értelmezés(hu)
• Romanian:interpretare(ro)f

meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.—seeinterpretation

geometric construction

• Bulgarian:построение(bg)n(postroenie)
• Finnish:konstruktio(fi)
• German:Konstruktion(de)f
• Hungarian:szerkesztés(hu)
• Japanese:Kỉ hà họa pháp(kikagahō)
• Polish:konstrukcja(pl)f
• Romanian:construcție(ro)f

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Translations to be checked

• Georgian:^{(pleaseverify)}კონსტრუქცია(ka)(ḳonsṭrukcia)

Further reading

• “construction”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• “construction”,inThe Century Dictionary[…],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,→OCLC.
• “construction”,inOneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

BorrowedfromLatincōnstructiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/kɔ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

constructionf(pluralconstructions)

1. construction

Derived terms

• matériau de construction

Related terms

• construire

Descendants

• →Turkish:konstrüksiyon

Further reading

• “construction”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.