construction
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4.8
- noun
- /kənˈstrʌkʃən/
:
construcción
- In our discussion, we focused on the construction of meaning in different cultural contexts.
- social construction
- construction of identity
- construction of knowledge
This is the symmetrical construction of halves in Hemingway's novel.
- This is the symmetrical construction of halves in Hemingway's novel.
- I mean, your comments about white construction helping colonialism was dead on.
- And it's a very sophisticated tool for both plot construction and story development.
- They're both largely constructions in our head.
- These terms are critical critical in interpretation of the rules of construction for substantially limited.
- And yet it is a construction of law among other things the European Union.
- Instead, the court chose to fill the gap with two and possibly three reasonable constructions.
- OK, so my, what I call myself is on this kind of view, no less a construction than space and time.
- You know, we've we've established recently that we're living in this universe is a construction of bucks making.
Examples
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As usual, you put your own construction on anything I say!
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And it teaches them that the media are a construction.
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So it's something which is related to the construction of the argument.
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What if your "self" is a construction?
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Instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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What construction did you place upon this woman's treatment of you?
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- We only know reality through our mental constructions.
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Sexuality, like the self, is a social construction subject to a variety of competing influences.
Academic text (1999) -
The ideal of beauty, so important in the construction of modern masculinity, was reversed.
Academic text (2012) -
For example, students read different accounts of the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the 19th century.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
314
4.4
An explanation of what something means
99
4.1
The parts and amounts that make up something
59
4.6
An idea or plan someone forms in their mind
14
6.2
Combining different ideas to form one whole
14
6.0
The process of making a clear plan or idea
5
7.5
Forming a clear idea of something in your mind
2
8.1
A clear, detailed explanation that helps you understand a text or idea
A way of understanding the meaning of something
A way of joining different ideas and images in your mind into one clear picture
Compounds
49
1.7
A person who builds and fixes buildings, roads and other large structures at work sites
- Specialized
A group of words in a sentence that work together to show one idea
How Plausible
79
5.6
314
4.4
18
4.8
288
4.8
1
8.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Construction comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and struere 'to pile up or build'. A helpful way to remember this sense is to think of 'building' an idea from different parts, so a construction can be an interpretation or the way you put pieces together to find meaning.