Making vs Construction - What's the difference?
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The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
Process of growth or development.
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.
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, 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.
Making is a related term of construction.
As nouns the difference between making and construction
is that making is the act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction while construction is the process of constructing.As a verb making
is .making
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) making, from (etyl) , (etyl) machunga.Noun
(en noun)- ''As a child he didn’t seem like a genius in the making .
Etymology 2
From .Verb
(head)- Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn eat. - Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas
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*construction
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.