n.
1.the act of constructing or building something
2.the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings
3.a thing constructed
4.a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
5.the creation of a construct
6.an interpretation of a text or action
7.drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
Idiom of the Day
go off on a tangent
to suddenly change one's line of thought or course of action
The speaker suddenly went off on a tangent and began to speak about something totally different.