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building
A closed structure with walls and a roof.
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  1. A closed structure with walls and a roof.
  2. (Uncountable) The act or process of building.
  3. The act, process, work, or business of constructing houses, ships, etc.
assembly
The act of putting together such set of pieces.
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  1. The act of putting together such set of pieces.
  2. A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
  3. (Computing) In Microsoft .NET, a building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
creation
A creating or being created
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  1. A creating or being created
  2. The divine act by which, according to various religious and philosophical traditions, the world was brought into existence.
  3. An original product of human invention or artistic imagination:
composition
An agreement, or settlement, often by compromise, as by the creditors of a potential bankrupt
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  1. An agreement, or settlement, often by compromise, as by the creditors of a potential bankrupt
  2. (Law) A settlement whereby the creditors of a debtor about to enter bankruptcy agree, in return for some financial consideration, usually proffered immediately, to the discharge of their respective claims on receipt of payment which is in a lesser amount than that actually owed on the claim.
  3. An arrangement of the parts of a work of art so as to form a unified, harmonious whole
origination
(Uncountable) The process of bringing something into existence.
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  1. (Uncountable) The process of bringing something into existence.
invention
A mental fabrication, especially a falsehood.
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  1. A mental fabrication, especially a falsehood.
  2. The act or process of inventing:
  3. A discovery; a finding.
formation
A long, mappable body of rock that is recognizable by its physical characteristics and by its location within the rock record.
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  1. A long, mappable body of rock that is recognizable by its physical characteristics and by its location within the rock record.
  2. The act or process of forming something or of taking form.
  3. (Geol.) A rock unit distinguished from adjacent deposits by some common character, as composition, origin, type of fossil, etc.
conception
The ability to form or understand mental concepts and abstractions:
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  1. The ability to form or understand mental concepts and abstractions:
  2. The beginning or formation of an idea or plan:
  3. The act, process, or power of conceiving mentally; formulation of ideas, esp. of abstractions
improvisation
The act of improvising
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  1. The act of improvising
  2. Something improvised, such as a musical passage or comedic skit.
  3. The act or art of improvising.
making
The material or ingredients needed for making something:
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  1. The material or ingredients needed for making something:
  2. The act of one that makes or the process of being made; formation, construction, creation, production, composition, manufacture, development, performance, etc.
  3. The process of coming into being:
erection
The process of filling with blood.
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  1. The process of filling with blood.
  2. Something erected; structure, building, etc.
  3. The firm, enlarged condition of a usually flaccid body part when the tissue within it becomes filled with blood, especially of the penis or clitoris.
fabrication
A fabricated thing; esp., a falsehood, false excuse, etc.
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  1. A fabricated thing; esp., a falsehood, false excuse, etc.
  2. A fabricating or being fabricated; construction; manufacture
manufacture
The making or producing of something.
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  1. The making or producing of something.
  2. An industry in which mechanical power and machinery are employed.
  3. The making of goods and articles by hand or, esp., by machinery, often on a large scale and with division of labor
foundation
Of evidence, that it indicates or leads to the admissibility of other evidence; a nonprofit organization created to fund or promote charitable causes. Of evidence, that it indicates or leads to the admissibility of other evidence; a nonprofit organization created to fund or promote charitable causes.
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  1. Of evidence, that it indicates or leads to the admissibility of other evidence; a nonprofit organization created to fund or promote charitable causes. Of evidence, that it indicates or leads to the admissibility of other evidence; a nonprofit organization created to fund or promote charitable causes.
  2. The act of founding, especially the establishment of an institution with provisions for future maintenance.
  3. An organization established to maintain, assist, or finance institutions or projects of a social, educational, charitable, religious, etc. nature, as by the making of grants
roadwork
Outdoor long-distance running as a form of physical exercise or conditioning.
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  1. Outdoor long-distance running as a form of physical exercise or conditioning.
  2. Exercise such as running and jogging done on the roads.
  3. Work done in repairing or building roads
elevation
The height to which something is elevated above a point of reference, especially mean sea level:
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  1. The height to which something is elevated above a point of reference, especially mean sea level:
  2. The act or an instance of elevating:
  3. Loftiness or dignity, as of thought or feeling:
rearing
Act of raising young.
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  1. Act of raising young.
raising
Elevation.
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  1. Elevation.
  2. Collection or gathering, especially of money.
  3. Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
installation
Any military post, camp, base, etc.
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  1. Any military post, camp, base, etc.
  2. An example of installation art.
  3. A work of art requiring construction or elaborate setting up at its exhibition site: an installation typically makes use of a variety of media and often includes nontraditional media, as projected images or taped sounds
structure
The interrelation or arrangement of parts in a complex entity:
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  1. The interrelation or arrangement of parts in a complex entity:
  2. Something composed of interrelated parts forming an organism or an organization
  3. The way in which parts are arranged or put together to form a whole; makeup:
arrangement
A collection of things that have been arranged:
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  1. A collection of things that have been arranged:
  2. Something made by arranging parts in a particular way
  3. (Music) Adaptation of a composition to other instruments or voices than those for which it was originally written, or to the style of a certain band or orchestra
organization
(Countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
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  1. (Countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
  2. (Uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
  3. A group of persons organized for a particular purpose; an association or business.
disposition
The power or authority to arrange, settle, or manage; control
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  1. The power or authority to arrange, settle, or manage; control
  2. The power or liberty to control, direct, or dispose:
  3. A putting in order or being put in order; arrangement
system
An organism as a whole, especially with regard to its vital processes or functions:
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  1. An organism as a whole, especially with regard to its vital processes or functions:
  2. Harmonious interaction or order:
  3. A set of facts, principles, rules, etc. classified or arranged in a regular, orderly form so as to show a logical plan linking the various parts
plan
A proposed or intended course of action:
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  1. A proposed or intended course of action:
  2. A drawing or diagram showing the arrangement in horizontal section of a structure, piece of ground, etc.
  3. A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline:
development
A significant event, occurrence, or change.
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  1. A significant event, occurrence, or change.
  2. The central section of a movement in sonata form, in which the theme is elaborated and explored.
  3. A significant event, occurrence, or change:
contour
The outline of a figure, body, or mass.
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  1. The outline of a figure, body, or mass.
  2. (Linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
  3. The general shape or form of a figure, configuration, etc.
format
A basic form, style, or medium
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  1. A basic form, style, or medium
  2. The shape, size, binding, typeface, paper, and general makeup or arrangement of a book, magazine, etc.
  3. A plan for the organization and arrangement of a specified production.
mold
Any of various fungi that often form a fuzzy growth (called a mycelium ) on the surface of organic matter. Some molds cause food to spoil, but others are beneficial, such as those used to make certain cheeses and those from which antibiotics like penicillin are developed. The molds do not form a distinct phylogenetic grouping but belong to various phyla including the ascomycetes and the zygomycetes.
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  1. Any of various fungi that often form a fuzzy growth (called a mycelium ) on the surface of organic matter. Some molds cause food to spoil, but others are beneficial, such as those used to make certain cheeses and those from which antibiotics like penicillin are developed. The molds do not form a distinct phylogenetic grouping but belong to various phyla including the ascomycetes and the zygomycetes.
  2. Distinctive character or type:
  3. A pattern, hollow form, or matrix for giving a certain shape to something in a plastic or molten state
cast
Outward form or look; appearance:
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  1. Outward form or look; appearance:
  2. A mold or impression taken of an object or of printing type
  3. The form in which something is made or constructed; arrangement:
outline
A sketch showing only the contours of an object without use of shading
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  1. A sketch showing only the contours of an object without use of shading
  2. (Film industry) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
  3. A preliminary plan for a project.
type
A number of people or things having in common traits or characteristics that distinguish them as a group or class:
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  1. A number of people or things having in common traits or characteristics that distinguish them as a group or class:
  2. A size or style of printed or typewritten characters; a typeface:
  3. The general form, structure, plan, style, etc. characterizing or distinguishing the members of a class or group
shape
That quality of a thing which depends on the relative position of all points composing its outline or external surface; physical or spatial form
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  1. That quality of a thing which depends on the relative position of all points composing its outline or external surface; physical or spatial form
  2. The condition of something with regard to effectiveness, use, or appearance:
  3. A desirable form:
build
(Computers) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
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  1. (Computers) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
  2. The physical makeup of a person or thing, especially one's physique:
cut
One of the bits of straw, stick, paper, etc. used in drawing lots to decide something
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  1. One of the bits of straw, stick, paper, etc. used in drawing lots to decide something
  2. A movie at a given stage in its editing:
  3. The style in which a thing is cut; fashion; form
fabric
A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers.
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  1. A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers.
  2. Anything constructed or made of parts put together; structure; building
  3. The style or plan of construction
formation
The manner or style in which something is formed; structure:
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  1. The manner or style in which something is formed; structure:
  2. The act or process of forming something or of taking form.
  3. (Geol.) A rock unit distinguished from adjacent deposits by some common character, as composition, origin, type of fossil, etc.
turn
A distinctive form, manner, cast, detail, etc.
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  1. A distinctive form, manner, cast, detail, etc.
  2. A variation of a given kind or type:
  3. A distinctive, graceful, or artistic expression or arrangement of words:
framework
(Figuratively, especially in, computing) A basic conceptual structure.
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  1. (Figuratively, especially in, computing) A basic conceptual structure.
  2. (Literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
  3. The basic structure, arrangement, or system
figuration
(Music) Ornamentation of a passage by embellishing and often repeating figures.
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  1. (Music) Ornamentation of a passage by embellishing and often repeating figures.
  2. The act of forming something into a particular shape.
  3. A shape, form, or outline.
conformation
(Chemistry) The spatial arrangement of the atoms in a molecule as a result of rotation about a single bond
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  1. (Chemistry) The spatial arrangement of the atoms in a molecule as a result of rotation about a single bond
  2. The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on the arrangement of parts; form; arrangement.
  3. The structure or form of a thing as determined by such arrangements; specif., the shape or outline, as of an animal
configuration
Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.
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  1. Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.
  2. Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing's shape; figure; form factor.
  3. (--- Computers) The way in which a computer system or network is set up or connected.
frame
Body structure in general; build
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  1. Body structure in general; build
  2. An established order or system
  3. The rectangular image on a film screen, or the particular objects or activity focused on by the camera
prefab
(Informal) A prefabricated building
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  1. (Informal) A prefabricated building
  2. Something prefabricated, especially a building or section of a building.
clarification
The act of freeing from obscurities.
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  1. The act of freeing from obscurities.
  2. The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.
decipherment
Decryption.
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  1. Decryption.
  2. The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost.
elucidation
A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject.
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  1. A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject.
exegesis
An instance of this
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  1. An instance of this
  2. An exposition or explanation of a text, especially a religious one.
  3. Critical explanation or analysis, especially of a text.
explanation
A mutual defining of terms, declaration of motives, etc. to clear up a misunderstanding or settle a dispute
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  1. A mutual defining of terms, declaration of motives, etc. to clear up a misunderstanding or settle a dispute
  2. The interpretation, meaning, or sense given in explaining
  3. The act or process of explaining:
exposition
The action of putting something out to public view; for example in a display or show.
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  1. The action of putting something out to public view; for example in a display or show.
  2. A statement or rhetorical discourse intended to give information about or an explanation of difficult material.
  3. A setting forth of facts, ideas, etc.; detailed explanation
illumination
An example of this art.
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  1. An example of this art.
  2. The art or act of decorating a text, page, or initial letter with ornamental designs, images, or lettering.
  3. Clarification; explanation
illustration
An example, story, analogy, etc. used to help explain or make something clear
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  1. An example, story, analogy, etc. used to help explain or make something clear
  2. The act of illustrating or the state of being illustrated:
  3. An example that is used to clarify or explain something.
interpretation
A result of interpreting.
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  1. A result of interpreting.
  2. An explanation or conceptualization by a critic of a work of literature, painting, music, or other art form; an exegesis.
  3. The act or result of interpreting; explanation, meaning, translation, exposition, etc.
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  • He explained the construction of the room and its purposes.

  • Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter?

  • 21, its principle of construction is shown in figs.

  • My action seems to me free; but asking myself whether I could raise my arm in every direction, I see that I raised it in the direction in which there was least obstruction to that action either from things around me or from the construction of my own body.

  • The English micrometer still retains the essential features of Troughton's original construction above described.

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