0 the work of building or making something, especially buildings, bridges, etc.:
The bridge is a marvellous work of engineering and construction.
This website is currently under construction (= being created).
The bridge is of lightweight construction.
1 the way in which the words in a sentence or phrase are arranged:
The writer has used several complex grammatical constructions.
2 to understand something in a particular way:
4 your understanding of the meaning of something in a particular way:
5 the process or business of building large objects such as buildings, roads, bridges, etc.:
6 the activity of putting the different parts of something together in order to make it:
The chemical is found in materials used in the construction of travel trailers.
under construction They now have four satellites under construction.
the construction of an investment portfolio
7 the particular type of structure, materials, etc. that something has:
The bridge is of lightweight construction.
Falling house prices are illustrative of the crisis facing the construction industry.
The construction of the tunnel is a large and complex undertaking.
He called for checks to discover whether corrupt officials are being bribed to connive in shoddy construction.
Each run can be taken as a record of an agent's memory constructions history.
The second par t takes up linguistic practices in relation to the social practices and gender constructions that the first par t has established.
In addition, individual lexical items are eventually related into more general constructions, as we will see later.
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建築物, 建造, 構築…
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建筑物, 建造, 构筑…
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construcción, construcción [feminine]…
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construção, edificação, prédio…
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建設(作業), 建造物…
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construction [feminine], bâtiment [masculine], construction…
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