construction

Definition

  • noun: the act or process of building something (such as a house or road)
  • noun: the act or result of 'construing', interpreting, or explaining
  • often used before another noun

Examples

  • They haven't chosen a 'construction' site for the building yet. [=they haven't decided where the building will be built yet]

  • Some people think it is wrong to end a sentence with a preposition, but the 'construction' is quite common in English.

  • Don't put a negative 'construction' on what I said: [=don't understand what I said in a negative way]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) We follow the directions. This has happened before thousands of years ago, and the Ancients were there to see it. All the great constructions, the Mayans, the Chinese, the Egyptians. They made use of the gravitational effects of the Convergence. And they left us a map. (..)
    2013 Thor: The Dark World