Definition of Construction

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Construction

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

The form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement.

The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement.

The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense.

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Construction Quotations

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
William Shakespeare

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato

The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
Marilyn vos Savant

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
Jean Piaget

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.
Ritchie Blackmore

Construction Translations

construction in French is terrier
construction in German is Anlage {f}, Bauweise, Errichtung {f}
construction in Italian is edificazkone
construction in Swedish is konstruktion

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