constraint
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~ the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others
constriction
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~ a tight feeling in some part of the body; "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat"
constriction
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~ a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
constriction
— Noun
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~ the action or process of compressing
constriction
— Noun
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~ tight or narrow compression
Coluber constrictor
— Noun
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~ blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet
Constrictor constrictor
— Noun
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~ very large boa of tropical America and West Indies
constrictor
— Noun
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~ any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils
construal
— Noun
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~ an interpretation of the meaning of something; the act of construing
construct
— Noun
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~ an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
construction
— Noun
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~ drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"
construction
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~ the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
construction
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~ a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
construction
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~ a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"
construction
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~ the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"
construction
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~ the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"
construction
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~ an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"
constructive breach
— Noun
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~ a breach of contract committed prior to the time of required performance
constructiveness
— Noun
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~ the quality of serving to build or improve
constructivism
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~ an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects