| construction | 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 |
construction
building | the act of constructing something, during the construction we had to take a detour, his hobby was the building of boats |
| road construction | the construction of roads |
| construction building | the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones, their main business is home construction, workers in the building trades |
structure
construction | a thing constructed, a complex entity constructed of many parts, the structure consisted of a series of arches, she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons |
| Composite order | a Roman order that combines the Corinthian acanthus leaves with the spiral scrolls of the Ionic order |
construction
mental synthesis | the creation of a construct, the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought |
complex
composite | a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts, the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town |
construction grammatical construction
expression | 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 |
construction
twist | an interpretation of a text or action, they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct |
construction industry
housing industry | an industry that builds housing |
comprehensive school
composite school | a large British or Canadian secondary school for children of all abilities |
construction worker
hard hat | a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. |
composite
composite plant | considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers |
| composite number | an integer that is divisible without remainder by at least one positive integer other than itself and one |
| composite material | strong lightweight material developed in the laboratory, fibers of more than one kind are bonded together chemically |
| construction paper | paper suitable for drawing and making cutouts |
| composite | consisting of separate interconnected parts |
| composite | of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae |