Construction and Wear

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Construction noun - Something put together by arranging or connecting an array of parts.

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Wear is an antonym for construction.

Wear noun - The result of long and hard use.

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Construction is an antonym for wear in use topic.

Nearby Words: weary, wearing, weariness, wearable, wearer

physical	physical construction	physical wear
special	special construction	special wear
normal	normal construction	normal wear
typical	typical construction	typical wear
Other adjectives: proper, actual, real, large, little, new, traditional, military, unusual, various, modern, civilian.

Construction workers wear yellow, social minions wear red (except for the Spindoctor), military minions wear orange and science minions wear white.

Source: Video Game / Evil Genius
A lesser known fact about them (amongst non-wearers) is that they're quite hard (because of both the heavy felt and the shape), which meant that construction foremen (or businessmen visiting a construction site) would sometimes wear them instead of hard hats.

Source: Dashingly Dapper Derby
One strip of The Far Side had a construction worker standing with a toppled building resting on his helmet, with the foreman mentioning that that's why they wear hard-hats.

Source: The Hard Hat

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