Civil vs Construction - What's the difference?
civil | construction |
(uncomparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.
(comparable) Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner.
The process of constructing.
Anything that has been constructed.
The trade of building structures.
A building, model or some other structure.
(arts) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
The manner in which something is built.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 95:
(geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
As an adjective civil
is having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.As a noun construction is
the process of constructing.civil
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people .
- It was very civil of him to stop the argument
Derived terms
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English
* ("construction" on Wikipedia) *Noun
(en noun)- Construction is underway on the new bridge.
- The engineer marvelled at his construction .
- He had worked in construction all his life.
- The office was a construction of steel and glass.
- "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.
- A thing of simple construction .
citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}
- American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.
- He had considered sending Lucille away to stay with relations. But then people might have put the worst construction on it – might believe she had done something she shouldn't have.
