Word Finder - construction

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The process of constructing.

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Construction is underway on the new bridge.

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Anything that has been constructed.

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The engineer marvelled at his construction.

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The trade of building structures.

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He had worked in construction all his life.

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A building, model or some other structure.

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The office was a construction of steel and glass.

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

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"Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.

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The manner in which something is built.

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A thing of simple construction.

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

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The act or result of construing the meaning of something.

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American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.

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

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

Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter?

A general idea of the construction of the machine can be gathered from fig.

The English micrometer still retains the essential features of Troughton's original construction above described.

My action seems to me free; but asking myself whether I could raise my arm in every direction, I see that I raised it in the direction in which there was least obstruction to that action either from things around me or from the construction of my own body.

Toby had drawn him on black construction paper with silver glitter outlining the shape of a man.

The general construction of wooden screens is close panelling beneath, on which stands screen-work composed of slender turned balusters or regular wooden mullions, supporting tracery more or less rich with cornices, crestings, &c., and often painted in brilliant colours and gilded.

A final argument is the existence in some cases of a village of circular stone buildings of similar construction to the nuraghi, but only 15 to 25 ft.

By the following September Helen shows improvement in fulness of construction and more extended relations of thought.

This advance necessitated a third movement, the construction of a frontier connecting the annexations of A.D.

Having circulated a prophecy that the son of Apollo was to be born again, he contrived that there should be found in the foundations of the temple to Aesculapius, then in course of construction at Abonouteichos, an egg in which a small live snake had been placed.

At my request, one of the teachers in the girls' department examined Helen in regard to the construction of the story.

Prior to its construction, a school bus could only pass over it empty, necessitating the children to alight, walk, and rejoin their transportation of the far side.

The couple was newly married, Bird Song still under construction, and with Fred out of town, they stole two days on a camping honeymoon.

The collapse both of this temple and of that of Heracles must be attributed to an earthquake; many fallen blocks of the former were removed in 1756 for the construction of the harbour of Porto Empedocle.

In 1840 the freedom of mining was introduced, 2 By the law of 1906 the state has not assumed the responsibility of the construction of reservoirs for irrigation.

The construction varies with the site, obviously with a view to the best use of the ground from a strategic point of view.

For the scientific construction of a green, the whole ground must be excavated to a depth of 18 in.

Ariminum became a place of considerable traffic owing to the construction of the Via Aemilia (187 B.C.) and the Via Popilia (132 B.C.), and is frequently mentioned by ancient authors.

A notable feature of modern boiler construction is the mode of building the apparatus of cast iron in either horizontal or vertical sections.

Construction proceeded under this law, but not with very satisfactory results, and new arrangements had to be made between 1852 and 1857, when the railways were concentrated in the hands of six great companies, the Nord, the Est, the Ouest, the Paris-Lyon-Mditerrane, the Orleans and the Midi.

They accurately described the construction of DNA as a double helix and showed how its structure made replication both possible and reliable.

Changes in the height or construction of buildings, and a greater readiness to make claims on insurance offices, may be contributory causes.

An elaborate symmetry is observable in the construction of many of his elegies, and this has tempted critics to divide a number of them into strophes.

He drew up a scheme for the construction of a pier at Madras, to avoid the dangers of landing through the surf, and instructed his brother-in-law in England to obtain estimates from the engineers Brindley and Smeaton.

Repsolds employ for the micrometers of their reading microscopes the form of construction shown in fig.

At that time many were in serious disrepair, but most of them have been greatly improved by the construction of proper regulators and sluices.

Several railway lines have been projected, but there is no great probability of their construction under existing political conditions.

Communications.-The development of railways in Argentina, which dates from 1857 when the construction of the Buenos Aires Western was begun, was at first slow and hesitating, but after 1880 it went forward rapidly.

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In return for the privileges granted them the companies undertook the construction out of their own unaided resources of 1500 m.

There are also directors of stores, of naval construction, of the medical service, and of the submarine defences (which are concerned with torpedoes, mines and torpedo-boats), as well as of naval ordnance and works, The prefect directs the operations of the arsenal, and is responsible for its efficiency and for that of the ships which are there in reserve.

The anatomical construction of these plants presents many peculiarities which have given rise to discussion as to the allocation of the order among the dicotyledons or among the monocotyledons, the general balance of opinion being in favour of the former view.

The principles of construction, the use of stone and cement are the same as in the "elliptical" kraal; there is no definite plan, the shape and arrangement of the enclosures being determined solely by the natural features of the ground.

In the charter granted by the Canadian parliament to the Canadian Pacific railway a clause giving it for twenty years control over the railway construction of the province led to a fierce agitation, till the clause was repealed in 1888.

It assigns its quota of taxes (contingent) to each arrondissement, authorizes the sale, purchase or exchange of departmental property, superintends the management thereof, authorizes the construction of new roads, railways or canals, and advises on matters of local interest.

In regard to the constitution and maintenance of the naval forces, the administration of the arsenals is divided into three principal departments, the first concerned with naval construction, the second with ordnance, including gun-mountings and small-arms, and the third with the so-called submarine defences, dealing with all torpedo materiel.

The man who does not understand the construction of the machine cannot conceive that the small connecting cogwheel which revolves quietly is one of the most essential parts of the machine, and not the shaving which merely harms and hinders the working.

The vertex of the Washington Monument is made of aluminum, an extremely expensive material at the time of its construction.

He was in black, unaffected by the cold or the light settling over him, outlining him like glitter on black construction paper.

Oh, he's a nice man too—he's in construction.

At or near the tower Hananeel the wall turned south along the east side of the Tyropoeon valley, and then again westward, crossing the valley at a point probably near the remarkable construction known as Wilson's arch.

There are also carriage roads to Bethlehem, Hebron and Jericho, and a road to Nablus was in course of construction in 1909.

The Temple of the Cross is a larger structure of similar design and construction.

Actual construction was completed to Burnoi (220 versts) when Bolshevism came to crush all enterprise and initiative.

There is no general property tax except a special levy of 8% on the general list for school purposes and 5% for the construction of roads.

In its construction an attempt has been made to produce a building suitable for Christian worship whilst the architecture is Moorish in style.

The block containing his body was built into an angle of the Fort of the Twenty-four Hours, then under construction.

The oak of Britain is still in demand for the construction of merchant shipping, though teak has become in some measure its substitute, and foreign oak of various quality and origin largely takes.

This energy is obtained especially by the chioroplastids, and part of it is at once devoted to the construction of carbohydrate material, being thus turned from the kinetic to the potential condition.

Early legislation was confined almost entirely to matters of construction.