reconstruction
part of speech
noun (a reconstruction, reconstructions; also uncountable: reconstruction)
meaning for a pupil
1) Reconstruction is building something again after it was damaged or destroyed. tree →
2) A reconstruction is a copy made to show how something looked long ago, like a model of an old village. tree →
3) A reconstruction is an attempt to work out what happened, for example by acting out a crime or an accident step by step. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history and science lessons it tells how people rebuild towns after wars, floods or earthquakes, and how museums show old things; in stories and the news it appears with police and accidents («a reconstruction of the crash»). Phrases: «under reconstruction», «post-war reconstruction», «facial reconstruction».
examples
- The bridge is closed for reconstruction. tree →
- After the earthquake, the reconstruction of the town took a long time. tree →
- The museum has a reconstruction of a Viking house. tree →
- Scientists made a reconstruction of the dinosaur from its bones. tree →
- The police did a reconstruction of the robbery to jog people's memories. tree →
- Our class built a reconstruction of a Roman fort out of cardboard. tree →
- The reconstruction of the old school cost a lot of money. tree →
- The doctor talked about reconstruction of his broken knee. tree →
note
Comes from the verb «reconstruct» (re- = again + construct = build). Countable when it is one model or one acted-out event (a reconstruction); uncountable for the work of rebuilding. Not the same as «renovation», which means making an old building look new without rebuilding it.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «reconstruction» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.