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Construction vs Underbuild - What's the difference?

construction | underbuild |

As a noun construction

is the process of constructing.

As a verb underbuild is

to build beneath another structure; provide a foundation or support for; undergird.

construction

English

* ("construction" on Wikipedia) *

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 .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , 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.

    • Synonyms

    * building

    Antonyms

    * destruction

    Derived terms

    * constructionism * constructionist * construction paper * construction site * construction soldier * construction unit * deconstruction * metaconstruction * misconstruction * reconstruction * under construction

    Related terms

    * construct * constructionless * constructive

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    underbuild

    English

    Verb

  • To build beneath another structure; provide a foundation or support for; undergird.
  • *1900 , Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire archaeological journal: Volume 15 :
    • The two eastern arches have been underbuilt for the sake of strengthening them.
  • To perform insufficient construction on a building or in an area; build below a specified requirement or standard.
  • *1903 , West Publishing Company, The Northeastern reporter: Volume 65 :
    • Appellee was obliged to overbuild, rather than underbuild , the appellant's telephone line for the distance of these six spans for the following reason [...]

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