[syn: build up, work up, build, ramp up]
10. develop and grow;
- Example: "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Build \Build\ (b[i^]ld), v. i.
1. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of
building.
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2. To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's
self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed
reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice
of others.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Build \Build\ (b[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Built (b[i^]lt);
p. pr. & vb. n. Building. The regular imp. & p. p.
Builded is antiquated.] [OE. bulden, bilden, AS. byldan to
build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. b[=o]l farm, abode, Dan. bol
small farm, OSw. bol, b["o]le, house, dwelling, fr. root of
Icel. b[=u]a to dwell; akin to E. be, bower, boor. [root]97.]
1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any
kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular
structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
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Nor aught availed him now
To have built in heaven high towers. --Milton.
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2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or
produce by using appropriate means.
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Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks.
--Shak.
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3. To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and
stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; --
frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.
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I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace,
which is able to build you up. --Acts xx. 32.
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Syn: To erect; construct; raise; found; frame.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Build \Build\, n.
Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the
build of a ship; a great build on a man.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
build
n 1: constitution of the human body [syn: physique, build,
body-build, habitus]
2: alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo
studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the
spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" [syn: human body,
physical body, material body, soma, build, figure,
physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame,
form, flesh]
v 1: make by combining materials and parts; "this little pig
made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed
an electric brassiere warmer" [syn: construct, build,
make]
2: form or accumulate steadily; "Resistance to the manager's
plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the
Indian-Pakistani border" [syn: build up, work up,
build, progress]
3: build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation"
[syn: build, establish]
4: improve the cleansing action of; "build detergents"
5: order, supervise, or finance the construction of; "The
government is building new schools in this state"
6: give form to, according to a plan; "build a modern nation";
"build a million-dollar business"
7: be engaged in building; "These architects build in
interesting and new styles"
8: found or ground; "build a defense on nothing but the accused
person's reputation"
9: bolster or strengthen; "We worked up courage"; "build up
confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports" [syn: build
up, work up, build, ramp up]
10: develop and grow; "Suspense was building right from the
beginning of the opera"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
188 Moby Thesaurus words for "build":
Platonic form, Platonic idea, add to, aesthetic form, aggrandize,
amplify, anatomy, archetype, architectonics, architecture,
arrangement, art form, assemble, augment, base, bloat, blow up,
bod, body, body-build, boost, broaden, build in, build up,
building, bulk, bulk out, cast, combine, compose, composition,
compound, concoct, configuration, conformation, consist of,
constitute, constitution, construct, construction, create,
creation, crescendo, cut, develop, devise, dilate, distend,
elaborate, embody, enlarge, enter into, erect, establish, evolve,
exalt, expand, extend, extrude, fabric, fabricate, fabrication,
fashion, fashioning, fatten, figuration, figure, fill out, fix,
forge, forging, form, format, formation, formulate, found, frame,
fudge together, genre, get up, getup, go into, ground, habit,
heighten, hike, hike up, huff, impression, incorporate, increase,
indite, inflate, inner form, install, intensify, invest, jack up,
join, jump up, lay the foundation, layout, lengthen, magnify, make,
make up, makeup, making, manufacture, matrix, mature, maximize,
merge in, mix, modality, mode, model, mold, molding, mount,
multiply, organic structure, organism, organization, organize,
parlay, patch together, pattern, patterning, person, physique,
piece together, pitch, plan, plant, prefabricate, prepare, produce,
production, prototype, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put in,
put together, put up, pyramid, raise, rarefy, rear, rise, run up,
seat, set, set up, setup, shape, shaping, significant form, stamp,
strengthen, stretch, structure, structuring, style, sufflate,
swell, synthesize, tectonics, texture, thicken, throw up, tissue,
turn, type, unite in, up, uprear, upsurge, vest, warp and woof,
wax, weave, web, whomp up, widen, write
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
build
To process all of a project's source
code and other digital assets or resources in order to
produce a deployable product. In the simplest case this might
mean compiling one file of C source to produce an
executable file. More complex builds would typically
involve compiling multiple source files, building library
modules, packaging intermediate build products (e.g. Java
class files in a jar file), adding or updating version
information and other data about the product (e.g. intended
deployment platform), running tests and interacting with a
source code control system.
The build process is normally automated using tools such as
Unix make, Apache ant or as part of an integrated
development environment. This is taken one step further by
continuous integration set-ups which periodically build the
system while you are working on it.
(2011-12-16)