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defense vs construction

construction vs defense

defense and construction both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
defense Yes No No No
construction Yes No No No
As nouns, construction is a hypernym of defense; that is, construction is a word with a broader meaning than defense:
  • defense: a structure used to defend against attack
  • construction: a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
Other hypernyms of defense include structure.
defense (noun) construction (noun)
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies the act of constructing something
the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
protection from harm a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
a structure used to defend against attack the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
the justification for some act or belief an interpretation of a text or action
the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
(sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
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