Build

Definition: Build

Build

Noun

1. Constitution of the human body.

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".

Verb

1. Make by combining materials and parts: "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer".

2. Form steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly".

3. Build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation".

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. Increase or strengthen gradually; "This investment is building interest"; "We worked up courage".

10. : develop and grow; "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "build" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Aerospace

Computing

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Build

Belief

Count upon, depend upon, calculate upon, pin one's faith upon, reckon upon, lean upon, build upon, rely upon, rest upon; lay one's account for; make sure of.

Composition

Compose, form, make; make up, fill up, build up; enter into the composition of; (be a component).

Form

Verb: form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build; (construct).

Form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration; make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour; (outline); structure; plasmature.

Impossibility

Attempt impossibilities; square the circle, wash a blackamoor white; skin a flint; make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, make bricks without straw; have nothing to go upon; weave a rope of sand, build castles in the air, prendre la lune avec les dents, extract sunbeams from cucumbers, set the Thames on fire, milk a he-goat into a sieve, catch a weasel asleep, rompre l'anguille au genou, be in two places at once.

Production

Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete).

Stability

Settle down; strike roots, put down roots, take root; take up one's abode; build one's house on a rock.

Crosswords: Build

Remember, Daddy? That beautiful stage that you were gonna build for me. You were gonna light it with nothing but candles (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

I don't care! All I know is we didn't build it, and that's reason enough to assume the worst and blow it to kingdom come (The Iron Giant; writing credit: Brad Bird)

You wanna hear something really nutty? I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an airplane, you know you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it's ridiculous, right (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

Build me an army worthy of Mordor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

Speak to me and let our words build a shelter from the storm (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs)

I'll build your dreams with these two hands (I Swear; performing artist: All-4-One)

This time you'll see I'll build (Price of Love; performing artist: Bad English)

To build a wall between us (Don't Dream It's Over; performing artist: Crowded House)

And I pray in you’re the one I build my home with (If You're Not The One; performing artist: DANIEL BEDINGFIELD)

It take many nails to build crib, but one screw to fill it. (references; author: unknown)

Indian build small fire, stand real close. White man build big fire, stand way back. (references; author: unknown)

You can't build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. (references; author: unknown)

You are an engineer if you are currently gathering the components to build your own nuclear reactor. (references; author: unknown)

Skills Build America (1973)

The Parts That Build the Auto (1966)

So You Want to Build a Model Railroad (1955)

How to Build an Igloo (1949)

So You Want to Build a House (1948)

Come Together (And Build A Barn) (performing artist: The Electric Amish)

IF I COULD BUILD MY WHOLE WORLD AROUND YOU  (performing artist: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell )

Build Me Up, Buttercup (performing artist: The Foundations)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Chuo Build Industry Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Nissei Build Kogyo Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Thirty Days to a Happy Employee: How a Simple Program of Acknowledgment Can Build Trust and Loyalty at Work (reference)

• Jumps, etc.: Jumps, Dressage Arenas and Stable Equipment You Can Build (reference)

• Build a Classic Timber-Framed House: Planning and Design, Traditional Materials, Affordable Methods (reference)

• Norm Abram's New House/America's Favorite Carpenter and His Wife, Laura, Build Their Dream Home (reference)

• Build Your Own Redwall Abbey (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Build (reference)

• Build It (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Expedient Videos: How to Build a PC Computer Instructional (reference)

• How to Build Military Figures (reference)

• Muppet Babies: Let's Build (reference)

• How to Build Self-Esteem DVD (reference)

• To Build a Fire (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Boats to Build (reference)

• Build Me Up Buttercup (reference)

• Build your baby's brain through the power of Mozart: Brain 2 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 100btx (x12)/100bfx Sm (x12) Build To Order / 4-5 Wk Lead Time (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

An oblique view of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Build 1, Clifton Road Offices, Atlanta, GA. Credit: CDC.

NASA has selected TRW to build the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), a successor to the ... Credit: NASA.

239-foot tower built on Bugsuk Island in southwest Philippines This tower was built completely from native timber cut on location It took 19 men off the PATHFINDER three weeks to build this signal This was the largest wooden tower ever built by the C&GS Used for both observing and as a signal. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Tree roots exposed because of erosion on the north end of Sapelo's beach. Typical of barrier islands, sand from the north end of Sapelo and Blackbeard is eroded away by ocean currents and deposited at the south end where sand dunes continue to build. The erosion leaves behind trees that were once protected by dunes exposed to the ocean. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The Greenhill/East Timbalier dredge -- dredging in a channel to build new land for marsh habitat. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Landing equipment to build the Marble Point air strip. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Beginning to build a hydrographic signal. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

On the gulf side looking back at the Greenhill Production Facility, standing on newly deposited sediment that will provide the substrate to build the marsh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The United Anglers under Tom Furrer's direction raised funds to build a fish hatchery. This image shows the completed structure. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. Osprey continuing to build their nest on Otter Island. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

During the same period Germany shall not build any more high-power wireless telegraphy stations in her own territory or that of Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria or Turkey. (reference)

Workmen from all countries must build that temple. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

exclaimed both of Zaphod's heads in chorus. "So safe that you have to build a zarking fortress ship to take the by-products to the nearest black hole and tip them in

Were the ocean to make dykes, it would build them thus

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly

Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord

And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Build meals around your child's favorite foods. (references)

Without ADA, poisons build up and kill the lymphocytes. (references)

Each of these messages is used to build a certain protein. (references)

Business

Taiwan originally planned to build eight missile frigates. (references)

Some Western companies prefer to build their own retail network. (references)

Timely response is very important to build good business relationships. (references)

Children

Lebanon

Limited financial resources have hindered efforts to build adequate facilities to rehabilitate delinquents. (references)

Japan

The law does not mandate accessibility to buildings for persons with disabilities; however, the law on construction standards for public facilities allows operators of hospitals, theaters, hotels, and similar enterprises to receive low-interest loans and tax breaks if they build wider entrances and elevators to accommodate persons with disabilities. (references)

Mauritius

Under the plan, the Government is expected to start converting schools in 2002 and to start building additional secondary schools in 2003. The Government has started construction of 17 new secondary schools, which are scheduled to be completed by 2003. The Government also has started to build five new Form 6 schools planned to open in January 2003. Four colleges also are being extended, and four vocational colleges are being converted. (references)

Civil Liberties

Indonesia

Nonetheless, Christians continued to build churches during the year. (references)

Pakistan

Nawaz, a doctor, reportedly intended to build a free clinic next to his home. (references)

Norway

Since 1975 the town council in Drammen regularly has denied applications to build a mosque. (references)

Economic History

Bahrain

These islands will be mainly used to build commercial housing. (references)

Taiwan

Fifteen private firms have been authorized to build power plants. (references)

Ireland

Contractors will generally be asked to build to pre-specified designs. (references)

Human Rights

Panama

The DGSP did not receive funding to build a large prison facility in Divisa by the end of the year. (references)

Brazil

There were plans to build 112 new facilities during the year, with a combined capacity of 32,587 inmates. (references)

Brazil

After violent riots at the Tatuape complex in November 1999, Sao Paulo Governor Mario Covas significantly increased FEBEM's budget and promised to build 20 new facilities. (references)

Indigenous People

Dominica

There are credible reports of discrimination against Carib women who are married to, or who live with, non-Carib men, making it difficult for such couples to obtain permits to build homes within the reservation. (references)

Minorities

Romania

The Orthodox Church decided to build a new church and to restitute the old one to the Greek Catholics after it is completed. (references)

Bulgaria

It further alleged that the Baptists' efforts to build a new medical facility in the region were effectively a bribe to local authorities to gain permission to build a Baptist church in the area. (references)

Political Economy

Albania

International NGOs and the USG are working to build local NGO capacity. (references)

Bhutan

Programs to build a body of written law and to train lawyers are progressing. (references)

TAIWAN

The credit is mainly used to build industrial zones and foster development of small and medium enterprises. (references)

Political Rights

Pakistan

The Musharraf Government pledged to return the country to a democracy; however, President Musharraf stressed his priority first to build a strong economic and political foundation in order to avert another bout of "sham" democracy. (references)

Trade

Egypt

This indicates the significance of the Egyptian stock market in terms of providing financing and an opportunity to build savings. (references)

Ukraine

LEAPs help build partnerships between citizens, authorities and industry to reduce local environmental threats to human health and the ecology. (references)

Travel

Chad

Additional projects are planned to pave some roads and build bridges and culverts between N'Djamena and Abeche. (references)

Czech Rep

Most Czechs want to build long-term, two-way business relationships, and will be put off by too much emphasis on an immediate sale. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Recently, the Ivoirian government signed an agreement with a Ducth/British consortium to build an extended port area including an industrial zone of 162 hectares for more than CFA Francs 200 billion. (references)

Worker Rights

Burma

Children often build or repair roads and irrigation facilities. (references)

Guatemala

In 1998 DYMEL, SA was contracted to build a coal-fired power plant. (references)

India

Calcutta NGO's such as Sanlaap also are seeking to build stronger working relationships with local police. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "build": agitation build up ♦ body build ♦ build a barrier ♦ build a bridge ♦ build a nest ♦ build a reputation ♦ build another story ♦ build castles in the air ♦ build castles on the air ♦ build in ♦ build on ♦ build on in front ♦ build on sand ♦ build one's house on a rock ♦ build over ♦ build up ♦ build up the defense ♦ build upon ♦ man of average build ♦ man of solid build ♦ solid build ♦ To build a chapel. Additional references.

Beginning with "build": build-about, build-and-repair, build-in, build-ing, build-it, build-it-yourself, build-operate-transfer, build-or-buy, build-out, build-quality, build-up, build-ups.

Ending with "build": custom-build, new-build, re-build, self-build.

Containing "build": Anti-build-up.

Albanian

bazoj (base), trup (bodice, body, bulk, case, constitution, flesh, frame, personnel, shaft, staff), stil ndërtese, ndërtoj (carve, construct, engineer, erect, make, put up, raise, rear, set up, throw up, upbuild, work up), mbështet (abet, adhere, back, back up, buttress, countenance, found, hold up, lean, pillow, prop up, push, shore, support, sustain, uphold), formë ndërtese. (various references)

Arabic 

‏عمل في صناعة البناء, ‏عمل دعاية, ‏عزز (abound, bear out, boost, carry, cement, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, enhance, extend, foster, help, promote, ram, reinforce, sustain, underpin), ‏إتكل (calculate, count, count on, reckon, trust), ‏إعتمد (bank on, count on, depend, expect, lean, reckon, reckon on, rely, repose, trustee), ‏أنشأ تدريجيا, ‏أقام (banquet, dwell, erect, establish, home, institute, live, locate, lodge, occupy, perch, reinstate, reside, roost, sojourn, stay, tenant), ‏أطمح, ‏بنية (armature, construction, fabric, figure, format, formation, framework, gestalt, make up, organism, structure, substructure, texture), ‏بنى (construct, erect, make, mason, put up, rear, structure). (various references)

Asturian

construyir (to build). (various references)

Aymara

sayt'ayaña (to build). (various references)

Basque

eraiki (build to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

строя (construct, engineer, fabricate), форма (conformation, figuration, form, frame, manner, matrix, medium, mode, mould, shape, turn, uniform), построявам (construct, erect, frame, make, pyramid, rear, throw a bridge, upbuild), изграждам (construct, make, upbuild), издигам (advance, edify, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heft, heighten, hike, levitate, lift, make, put up, pyramid, raise, rear, rose, run up, set up, swing up, throw up, upbear, uplift, upraise). (various references)

Catalan

construir (construct). (various references)

Cebuano

magtukod (to build). (various references)

Chinese 

興建 (construct), 筑 (five-string lute), 打 (beat, break, calculate, dozen, fetch, fight, from, issue, make, mix up, shoot, since, strike, tie up), 搭 (hang, join, match, take, take passage), 個子 (height, size, stature), 建造 (construct), 建立 (construction, creation, establish, set up), 建成 (establish), 修造 (Built), 修築 . (various references)

Cornish

byldya (to build). (various references)

Czech

vytvořit (construct, create, fashion, forge, formulate, institute, model, produce, throw up), vybudovat (build up, found), stavba tìla (physique), stavìt (fabricate), stavět, sestrojit (construct), postavit (construct, contrast, erect, field, found, pitch, place, put, put up, raise, rear, right, set, state), postava (figure, frame, person, personage, shape, stature), narùstat (accrue, accumulate, boil up, build up). (various references)

Danish

bygge (construct). (various references)

Dutch

construeren (construct), bouwen (build from wood, construct), aanleggen (aim, construct, install, level, take aim). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

huasichina (to build a house). (various references)

Esperanto

masoni, konstrui (construct), ĉarpenti (build from wood). (various references)

Faeroese

byggja (construct), smíða (construct, forge), múra, gera (achieve, act, activate, carry out, cause, construct, do, form, get, give rise to, make, perform, shape, take action). (various references)

Farsi 

ساختن (Compose, Establish, Form, Invent, Make, Manufacture, Mint, Model, Move, Prepare, Upbuild, Weave), درست کردن (Adapt, Address, Agree, Clean, Compose, Concoct, Devise, Emend, Fix, Gully, Integrate, Make, Mend, Organize, Redd, Regulate, Right, Straighten, Trim, Weave), بناکردن (Erect, Ground, Mason, Upbuild). (various references)

Finnish

rakentaa (construct, erect). (various references)

French

construire, charpenter (build from wood), bâtir. (various references)

Frisian

mitselje, konstruearje (construct). (various references)

German

bauen (building, cause, construct, cultivate, erect, erection, lay, locate, make, open up, to build, to build (built), statur (figure, figure staturen figures, stature), mauern (lay bricks, shell, Stonewall, to lay bricks, walls), erbauen (construct, edify, elevate, erect, erection, uplift), aufbauen (assemble, base, be based, build on, build up, construct, establish, fix up, get up, lay out, organize, promote, put together, put up, rebuild, set up, structure, to build (up), to build up, to synthesize). (various references)

Greek 

κατασκευάζω (construct, fabricate, make, malt, manufacture), κτίζω (construct), κορμοστασιά (poise), μπόι (height, stature), χτίζω (construct, to build), ανάστημα (height, size, stature), οικοδομώ (construct). (various references)

Hebrew 

להרכיב (assemble, combine, compose, compound, fabricate, place on, put together, set up), לבנות (construct, establish, fabricate, form, make), בנה. (various references)

Hungarian

épít (built, construct, to build, to engineer, to put up, to raise, to throw out, to wattle). (various references)

Icelandic

byggja (construct), smíða (construct). (various references)

Indonesian

rupa, mendirikan (cause to stand up, erect, establish, found), memperbuat (do, make into), membina (develop), membangun (construct, constructive, develop, rise). (various references)

Inuktitut

sanaluni (to build). (various references)

Italian

costruire (construct, create, make, rear), fabbricare (brew, construct, constuct, fabricate, make, makes, manufacture, manufacutre, produce, to produce), edificare (construct, edify). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

骨柄 (appearance, physique), 骨格 (frame, physique), 骨幹 (skeleton, structure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

こつがら (appearance, physique), こっかん (depth of winter, Japanese and Chinese literature, severecold, skeleton, structure), こっかく (frame, framework, physique, skeletal structure). (various references)

Kongo

ku-tunga nzo (to build). (various references)

Korean 

구조 (Conformation, Frame, frames, Rescue, structure, tectonic). (various references)

Macedonian

gradi (chest, to build). (various references)

Manx

troggal (arise, boost, breed, breeding, bring off, bringing up, building, buzz off, construct, contract, contract as disease, contraction, development, edifice, elaborate, elaboration, elevate, freshen, freshen of wind, gather up, getting up, harvest, heave, heave as shoulders, hoist, input, invoke, lift, lifting, nurture, pick off; absorption, pick up, pull in, put up, raise, raise up, rally, rear, rearing, rig up, rise, set in rows, sing up, structure, take, train, train as child, winch, wind, winding), jannoo (accomplish, accomplishment, act, cast, coalesce, commit, committal, compose, conferment, conformation, construct, construction, create, deal, deed, do, effect, execute, fabricate, fashion, fend, fill, follow out, formation, goings on, keep, make, manufacture, perform, performance, performing, perpetrate, perpetration, persuance, practise, produce, production, render; doing, structure, style, transact, transaction, transactions), croo (appearance, coinage, coining, create, creation, father, form, format, invent, phase of moon, shape). (various references)

Norwegian

bygge (construct). (various references)

Occitan

bastir. (various references)

Papiamen

konstruí (construct). (various references)

Pig Latin

uildbay.(various references)

Polish

budować (construct). (various references)

Portuguese

edificar (construct, edify, engineer, frame, make, put up, raise), construir (brick, construct, construe, engineer, fabricate, frame, hammer out, make, raise, rear, set up), construção (building, construct, erection, fabric, framing, making). (various references)

Provencal

bastir (to build). (various references)

Romanian

construi (build up, carry up, construct, design, eng