build
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (10)built, builds, builded, building
- make by combining materials and parts“this little pig made his house out of straw”“Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer”Synonyms: constructmakeMore general make, createMore specific raise, rebuild, frame, channelize, lock, cantilever, dry-wall, wattle, groin, corduroy +2 more
- form or accumulate steadily“Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly”“Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border”Synonyms: build upwork upprogressMore general developSimilar build up
- build or establish something abstract“build a reputation”Synonyms: establishMore general make, create
- improve the cleansing action of“build detergents”More general better, improve
- order, supervise, or finance the construction of“The government is building new schools in this state”More general oversee, supervise
- give form to, according to a plan“build a modern nation”“build a million-dollar business”More general develop
- be engaged in building“These architects build in interesting and new styles”
- found or ground“build a defense on nothing but the accused person's reputation”
- bolster or strengthen“We worked up courage”“build up confidence”“ramp up security in the airports”Synonyms: build upwork upramp up
- develop and grow“Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera”
Noun (2)builds
- constitution of the human bodySynonyms: physiquebody-buildhabitusType of bodily propertyKinds dumpiness, lankiness, body type
- 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”Synonyms: human bodyphysical bodymaterial bodysomafigurephysiqueanatomyshapebodchassisframeformfleshType of body, organic structureKinds person, female body, juvenile body, adult body, male bodyPart of person, homo
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Translations
Verb to form by combining materials or parts
- Spanish
- construir
- French
- construire
- German
- bauen
- Italian
- costruire
- Portuguese
- construir
- Turkish
- inşa etmek
- Russian
- постро́ить postróitʹ
- Arabic
- بَنَى banā
- Chinese
- 建造 jiànzào
- Japanese
- 建てる tateru
36 more languages
- Dutch
- bouwen
- Polish
- budować
- Swedish
- bygga
- Greek
- χτίζω chtízo
- Korean
- 짓다 jitda
- Indonesian
- membangun
- Vietnamese
- xây
- Hungarian
- épít
- Portuguese (PT)
- construir
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 建造 jiànzào
- Albanian
- ndërtoj
- Breton
- sevel
- Catalan
- construir
- Corsican
- custruisce
- Czech
- stavět
- Danish
- bygge
- Esperanto
- konstrui
- Estonian
- ehitama
- Finnish
- rakentaa
- Georgian
- აშენება ašeneba
- Hebrew
- בָּנָה baná
- Icelandic
- byggja
- Kurdish
- ava kirin
- Latvian
- celt
- Lithuanian
- statyti
- Malagasy
- manorina
- Norwegian
- bygge
- Romanian
- construi
- Scottish Gaelic
- tog
- Serbo-Croatian
- graditi
- Slovak
- stavať
- Slovenian
- graditi
- Swahili
- -jenga
- Walloon
- basti
- Welsh
- adeiladu
- Yiddish
- בויען boyen
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. bulden, bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. bōl farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, böle, house, dwelling, fr. root of Icel. būa to dwell; akin to E. be, bower, boor. √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.
Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers.— John Milton
2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks.— William Shakespeare
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.
I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up.— Acts xx. 32.
Synonyms: To erect; construct; raise; found; frame.
1. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
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.
Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship; a great build on a man.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<programming, systems> 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)