Construction vs. Construe

Constructionnoun

The process of constructing.

Constructionnoun

Anything that has been constructed.

Constructionnoun

The trade of building structures.

Constructionnoun

A building, model or some other structure.

Constructionnoun

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

Constructionnoun

The manner in which something is built.

Constructionnoun

(grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.

Constructionnoun

The act or result of construing the meaning of something.

Constructionnoun

The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.

Constructionnoun

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

Constructionnoun

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

Constructionnoun

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

Constructionnoun

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

Constructionnoun

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

Constructionnoun

the act of constructing or building something;

Constructionnoun

the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings;

Constructionnoun

a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity;

Constructionnoun

a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit;

Constructionnoun

the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought

Constructionnoun

an interpretation of a text or action;

Constructionnoun

drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem;

Construction

Construction is a general term meaning the art and science to form objects, systems, or organizations, and comes from Latin constructio (from com- and struere ) and Old French construction. To construct is the verb: the act of building, and the noun is construction: how something is built, the nature of its structure.

Construenoun

A translation.

Construenoun

An interpretation.

Construeverb

(transitive) To interpret or explain the meaning of something.

Construeverb

To analyze the grammatical structure of a clause or sentence; to parse.

Construeverb

To admit of grammatical analysis.

Construeverb

(transitive) To translate.

Construeverb

To infer.

Construeverb

To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.

Construeverb

To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand.

Construeverb

make sense of; assign a meaning to;