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# reconstruction

«reconstruction» in Mova's school dictionary: **building something again after it was damaged or destroyed** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstruction/#m1)

2) A reconstruction is a copy made to show how something looked long ago, like a model of an old village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstruction/#m2)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstruction/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstruction/#x1)
- After the earthquake, the reconstruction of the town took a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstruction/#x2)
- The museum has a reconstruction of a Viking house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstruction/#x3)
- Scientists made a reconstruction of the dinosaur from its bones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstruction/#x4)
- The police did a reconstruction of the robbery to jog people's memories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstruction/#x5)
- Our class built a reconstruction of a Roman fort out of cardboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstruction/#x6)
- The reconstruction of the old school cost a lot of money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstruction/#x7)
- The doctor talked about reconstruction of his broken knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstruction/#x8)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconstruction/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.