construction

English

Construction on I-74

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French construction, from Latin cōnstructiō, from cōnstruere, present active infinitive of cōnstruō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈstɹʌkʃən/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌkʃən

Noun

construction (countable and uncountable, plural constructions)

1. The process of constructing.

   Construction is underway on the new bridge.

2. Anything that has been constructed.

   The engineer marvelled at his construction.

3. The trade of building structures.

   He had worked in construction all his life.

4. A building, model or some other structure.

   The office was a construction of steel and glass.

5. (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.

   "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.

6. The manner in which something is built.

   A thing of simple construction.

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

     Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of 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.

7. (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
8. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.

   American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.

9. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 95:

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

10. (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

Synonyms

• building

Antonyms

• destruction

Derived terms

terms derived from construction (noun)

• Cayley-Dickson construction
• constructionism
• constructionist
• construction paper
• construction site
• construction soldier

• construction unit
• deconstruction
• metaconstruction
• misconstruction
• reconstruction
• under construction

Related terms

► English terms derived from the PIE root *strew-‎ (0 c, 21 e)

Translations

process of constructing

• Albanian: konstruksion (sq) f
• Arabic: بِنَاء‎ f (bināʾ)
• Armenian: շինարարություն (hy) (šinararutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: tikinti (az)
• Belarusian: будава́нне n (budavánnje)
• Bulgarian: стро́ителство (bg) n (stróitelstvo)
• Catalan: construcció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 建設 (zh), 建设 (zh) (jiànshè)

• Czech: stavba (cs) f
• Esperanto: konstruo, konstruado
• Finnish: rakentaminen (fi), rakennustyöt (fi) pl
• French: construction (fr) f
• Galician: construción (gl) f
• Georgian: მშენებლობა (mšenebloba)
• German: Bau (de) m
• 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)
• Japanese: 建設 (ja) (けんせつ, kensetsu)
• Khmer: សំណង់ (km) (saamnng)
• Korean: 건설 (ko) (geonseol) (建設 (ko))
• Lao: ຊາງລໍ (sāng lǭ), ການກໍ່ສ້າງ (kān kǭ sāng)
• Mongolian: барилга (mn) (barilga), байгууллага (mn) (bajguullaga)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konstruksjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: konstruksjon m

• Polish: budowa (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: togail f
• Serbo-Croatian: konstrukcija (sh) f
• Spanish: construcción (es) f
• Tagalog: konstruksyon, sayari
• Thai: การก่อสร้าง (th) (gaan-gɔ̀ɔ-sâang)
• Turkish: inşa (tr), inşaat (tr)

anything constructed

• Bulgarian: постройка (bg) f (postrojka)
• Finnish: rakennelma (fi)
• Galician: construción (gl) f
• Greek: κατασκευή (el) f (kataskeví)
• Hungarian: építmény (hu), felépítmény (hu)
• Italian: costruzione (it) f

• Lao: ການກໍ່ສ້າງ (kān kǭ sāng)
• Polish: budynek (pl), budowla (pl)
• Portuguese: construção (pt) f, edifício (pt) m, edificação (pt) f
• Romanian: construcție (ro)
• Tagalog: sinayari

trade of building

• Armenian: շինարարություն (hy) (šinararutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: строителство (bg) n (stroitelstvo)
• Catalan: construcció (ca) f
• Czech: stavebnictví n
• Finnish: rakennusala, 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)
• Kabuverdianu: óbra
• 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

structure

• Arabic: مَبْنَى‎ m (mabnā), بِنَاء‎ f (bināʾ)
• Bulgarian: сграда (bg) f (sgrada), постройка (bg) f (postrojka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 建築 (zh), 建筑 (zh) (jiànzhù)

• Czech: konstrukce (cs) f
• Esperanto: konstruaĵo
• Finnish: rakenne (fi), rakennelma (fi)
• Georgian: შენობა (šenoba)
• German: Bauwerk (de) n
• Hebrew: מבנה‎ m (mivne)
• Hindi: इमारत (hi) f (imārat)
• Hungarian: szerkezet (hu), konstrukció (hu)

• Japanese: 建物 (ja) (たてもの, tatemono), 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: togail f
• Serbo-Croatian: konstrukcija (sh) f
• Urdu: عمارت‎ f (imārat)

artistic composition

• Bulgarian: конструкция (bg) f (konstrukcija)
• Finnish: konstruktio (fi)
• Georgian: კონსტრუქცია (ka) (ḳonsṭrukcia)

• Portuguese: obra (pt) f
• Romanian: operă (ro) f, ^{(please verify)} operă artistică f

manner in which something is built

• Bulgarian: строеж (bg) m (stroež)
• Finnish: rakenne (fi)
• German: Aufbau (de) m

• Greek: κατασκευή (el) f (kataskeví)
• Portuguese: construção (pt) f
• Serbo-Croatian: konstrukcija (sh) f

grammar

• Catalan: construcció (ca) f
• Finnish: rakenne (fi)
• Galician: construción (gl) f

• German: Satzbau (de) m
• Hungarian: szerkezet (hu)
• Spanish: construcción (es) f

act or result of construing the meaning of something

• Hungarian: értelmezés (hu)

meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.

• Hungarian: értelmezés (hu)

geometric construction

• Bulgarian: построение (bg) n (postroenie)
• Finnish: konstruktio (fi)
• German: Konstruktion (de) f

• Hungarian: szerkesztés (hu)
• Romanian: construcție (ro) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} კონსტრუქცია (ka) (ḳonsṭrukcia)

External links

• construction in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• construction in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• construction at OneLook Dictionary Search

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnstructiō, cōnstructiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

construction f (plural constructions)

1. construction

Related terms

• construire