Noun

(en noun)

The process of constructing.

Construction is underway on the new bridge.

Anything that has been constructed.

The engineer marvelled at his construction .

The trade of building structures.

He had worked in construction all his life.

A building, model or some other structure.

The office was a construction of steel and glass.

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

"Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.

The manner in which something is built.

A thing of simple construction .

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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 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.}}

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

The act or result of construing the meaning of something.

American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.

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:

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.

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

Noun

(en noun)

A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.

* Chesterfield

Style is the dress of thoughts.

* C. Middleton

the usual style of dedications

* I. Disraeli

It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.

* Sir J. Reynolds

The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.

flair; grace; fashionable skill

As a dancer, he has a lot of style .

(botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.

A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.

A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.

the style of Majesty

* Burke

one style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe

(nonstandard) A stylus.

(obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.

(Dryden)

A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.

A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.

A long, slender, bristle-like process.

the anal styles of insects

The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.

(computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.

applying styles to text in a wordprocessor

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