Noun

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

(label) One's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.ii:

all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature .

An important or main item.

(label) A long, prominent, article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

(label) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

*

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.

*

(label) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.

A feature' of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other ' features at these sites may include small hearths.

(label) Characteristic forms or shapes of a part. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.

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.