{
  "id": "construction.building",
  "term": "construction",
  "sense": "building",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "construction",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "It is putting parts together to make a structure.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "work.effort",
      "matter.substance",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "make.verb",
      "part.relation",
      "put.placement"
    ],
    "interaction": "Effort moves parts into place, combining them through placement to form a persistent structure.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "structural integrity",
      "organized assembly",
      "persistent form"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Burj Khalifa in Dubai required 330,000 cubic meters of concrete and 39,000 metric tons of steel to assemble its 828-meter frame.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Beavers stack logs and mud each spring to rebuild their dams after winter floods wash them apart.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station was assembled in orbit from 1998 to 2011 through 43 assembly flights.",
      "domain": "space"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "building.structure",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "engineering.technical"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "construct",
    "constructed",
    "constructing",
    "construction",
    "constructions",
    "constructs"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts from definition: make.verb, part.relation, put.placement. Removed malformed component 'matter.sub substance' and corrected to 'matter.substance'."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-construction.building"
}