the act of constructing something | dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten |
the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) |
drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem | a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic |
a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | a shallow receptacle for collection in church |
the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score |
an interpretation of a text or action | structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage |
a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper) |
| a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded |
| the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube |
| a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth |
| any flat platelike body structure or part |
| a main course served on a plate |
| the thin under portion of the forequarter |
| a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly |
| the quantity contained in a plate |