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Definition: Build |
BuildNoun1. 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". Verb1. 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) |
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Aerospace | Of a radiant energy signal, to increase, often temporarily, in received signal strength without a change of receiver controls.The opposite is fade. (references) |
Computing | An operational version of a software product incorporating a specified subset of the capabilities that the final product will include. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Build for make, as, A man of strong build, a man of robust make. The metaphor is evident. Build Applied to dress. Not so bad a build after all, not badly made. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Spanish (obrar). (references) |
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Synonyms: BuildSynonyms: anatomy (n), bod (n), body-build (n), chassis (n), figure (n), flesh (n), form (n), frame (n), habitus (n), human body (n), material body (n), physical body (n), physique (n), shape (n), soma (n), build up (v), construct (v), establish (v), make (v), progress (v), work up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | 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.) | |
Lyrics | 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) | |
Clever | 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) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 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) | |
Song Titles | 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) | |
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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). |
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| "Bricks to build" by Celia Martinez Bravo Commentary: "2000| Prague. Bricks that make a growing tower at the center of Prague." | "La Lomita Mission" by Jonathan Searfoss Commentary: "La Lomita Mission is a chapel build at the oldest settlement in Mission, Texas USA." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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| Building; gain; increasing; snowball; rise; swell; surge; surging; increase; build up; intensify; redouble; . | Pneumatic hand tool; handtool; nailgun; construction; construct; build. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Edward Young | Those who build beneath the stars build too low. |
Henry Adams | All experience is an arch, to build upon. |
Henry Ford | You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. |
John Ruskin | When we build, let us think that we build for ever. |
John Wooden | Sports do not build character. They reveal it. |
Joseph Fort Newton | People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. |
Milton Berle | If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. |
Sir Walter Scott | We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. |
Young | Too low they build who build below the skies. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | 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) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Workmen from all countries must build that temple. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Douglas Adams | 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 |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Were the ocean to make dykes, it would build them thus |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | 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 |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | 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 |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | 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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NEGRO, n. The piece de resistance in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: "Let n = the white man." This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Ann Richards | That's a consequence of those little hairline fractures. But weight-bearing exercise can build bone, build strength and that's what I do. I was in a gym this morning. |
Dennis Miller | For every guy from a poor neighborhood who grows up into a criminal, there are a thousand who work hard and build a decent life for themselves. |
Dennis Quaid | Well, what they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it. |
Mattie Stepanek | Jimmy Carter is my hero because he is a humble peacemaker. He will write a book. He'll solve a problem. He'll build a house. |
Rush Limbaugh | Kerry called for removing money from people's pockets to give it to the government, so they can build light and hybrid electric cars! |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Where private industry cannot build, the Government must step in to do the job. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | To counter the threat of those who seek to rule by force, we must pay the costs of our own needed military strength, and help to build the security of others. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Wherever nations are willing to help themselves, we stand ready to help them build new bulwarks of freedom. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Their task is to build and protect a new life in each rural province. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Together, we build the foundation for a government that works, and works for people. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Americans build the future. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Rather, we seek an Iraq that uses its great resources not to destroy, not to serve the ambitions of a tyrant, but to build a better life for itself and its neighbors. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | One thousand days to build a bridge to a land of new promise. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Should Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year. |
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| "Build" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.84% of the time. "Build" is used about 7,019 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 77.84% | 5,463 | 1,791 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.34% | 1,147 | 6,687 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.81% | 408 | 13,799 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,019 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Chuo Build Industry Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
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. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
build a bear | 1,858 | build my home | 270 |
build a web site | 1,181 | build your own pc | 257 |
build deck | 1,038 | build stairs | 257 |
build | 880 | build a bar | 242 |
build computer | 857 | build a go kart | 218 |
build your own computer | 555 | build retaining wall | 216 |
build a house | 538 | build me up buttercup | 208 |
build free web site | 488 | design build | 205 |
build a car | 465 | build a chopper | 202 |
build your own car | 393 | build a patio | 201 |
build a web page | 385 | build a pond | 199 |
build muscle | 373 | build a robot | 192 |
build a fence | 362 | build referral | 192 |
build your own web site | 336 | build dog house | 190 |
bear build workshop | 325 | build my own house | 185 |
build a shed | 316 | build a garage | 184 |
bear.com build | 315 | build me up buttercup lyrics | 170 |
build your own home | 296 | build motorcycle | 165 |
build a pc | 280 | build a waterfall | 161 |
build a go cart | 271 | build a picnic table | 159 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "build"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
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, engineer, erect, fabricate, form, found, frame, make, project, put up, raise, rear). (various references) | |
Romansch | construir (to build). (various references) | |
Romany | zalavàv jag (to build a fire), keràva (to build). (various references) | |
Ruanda | kubaka (to build). (various references) | |
Russian | строить;инф)формировать, строить (build up, construct, line up, put up), соорудить (erect), созидать (create), создавать (construct, create, establish, form, found, give rise, make up, shape), форма (chill, figure, form, forma, format, gestalt, make, mode, mould, pattern, shape, state, type-form, uniform). (various references) | |
Samoan | e faavae (to build). (various references) | |
Scottish | tog (brew, distil, educate, excite, lever, lift, raise, rear). (various references) | |
Sepedi | aga (to build). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stas (inches, physique, stature), sazidati, sagraditi (construct), osnovati (found, set up, start), izgraditi (build up, construct, develop, form, structure, upbuild), graditi (bottom, erect, form), građa (material, staple, structure, stuff, substance, wale). (various references) | |
Shona | -vaka (to build). (various references) | |
Sicilian | fabbricari (to build). (various references) | |
Spanish | construir (construct, drive, erect, frame, put up, rig up, set up, shape), edificar (construct, edify, erect, establish, found, improve, raise, upload). (various references) | |
Sranan | bow (construct), temre (build from wood). (various references) | |
Swazi | kw-ákha (to build). (various references) | |
Swedish | bygga (abide, construct, dwell, erect, found, ground, lay down, live, throw), uppföra (act, behave, do, enact, enter, erect, perform, put down, raise, set up), anlägga (assume, construct, found, lay, lay down, set up). (various references) | |
Thai | สร้าง (establish, fetch out, found). (various references) | |
Turkish | bel bağlamak (bank on, bargain on, base oneself on, calculate, go on, look to, place reliance in, place reliance on, reckon on, reckon upon, rely on, rely upon, repose in, rest on, trust to), yaradılış (being, constitution, creation, disposition, frame, idiosyncrasy, internal, make up, Mold, mould, temperament), yapmak (accomplish, achieve, acquit oneself, act, architect, carry out, carve out, contrive, create, do, engineer, establish, execute, fashion, father, fulfil, fulfill, get, go over, go through, have, implement, land, make, perform, perpetrate, ply, practice, practise, produce, profess, put on, put through, set, take, transact, turn out, weave), yapı (architecture, being, blood, building, chemistry, composition, conformation, constitution, construction, contexture, corpus, disposition, edifice, erection, fabric, fiber, fibre, form, frame, framework, habit, habit of body, make, make up, making, Mold, mould, nature, organism, presence, quality, set up, strain, structural, structure, system, texture, works), vücut yapısı (anatomy, body build, figure, physique), toplanmak (accumulate, agglomerate, assemble, band together, bunch, club, club together, cluster, collect, combine, congregate, convene, crowd, drift, flock, forgather, gather, get together, group, herd, horde, keep together, meet, meet in council, mob, muster, rally, reunite, roll up, shoal, sit, sit on, swarm, swarm to a place, throng, troop, troop together, troop up, turn out), toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), kurmak (activate, base, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), kümelenmek (conglomerate, group together, heap together, heap up), inşaatçılık yapmak, inşa etmek (construct, erect, rear), güvenmek (accredit, bank on, bargain on, base oneself on, believe, calculate, confide, confide in, count on, credit, depend, fall back upon a thing, figure on, give credence to, go on, have confidence in, lean on, look to, pin one's faith on, place one's trust in, place reliance in, place reliance on, put faith in, put one's trust in, reckon on, reckon upon, recline upon, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose in, rest on, take smth. on trust, throw oneself on, trust), örmek (bond, braid, entwist, hand-knit, knit, plait, spin, twine, weave). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gurmak (create, set). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | створювати (charter, coin, compose, construct, create, erect, found, mint, originate, produce, raise up), споруджувати (construct, cove, edify, engineer, pitch), форма будови, шити (needle, sew, stitch, tailor), конструкція (construction, frame, works), грунтувати (ground, prime), засновувати (base, charter, constitute, establish, institute, promote, set up, start), будувати (carry up, construct, erect, frame, put up), будівля (building, structure). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự xây dựng kiểu kiến trúc khổ người tầm vóc (built). (various references) | |
Welsh | adeiladu (construct, edify). (various references) | |
Zulu | -akha (construct). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ku. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adtollens, adtollite, aedifica, aedificabant, aedificabat, aedificabatur, aedificaberis, aedificabimini, aedificabimus, aedificabis, aedificabit, aedificabitis, aedificabitur, aedificabo, aedificabunt, aedificabuntur, aedificamus, aedificanda, aedificandam, aedificandum, aedificans, aedificant, aedificantes, aedificanti, aedificantibus, aedificantium, aedificare, aedificarem, aedificaremus, aedificarent, aedificares, aedificaret, aedificaretis, aedificaretur, aedificari, aedificaris, aedificas, aedificasse, aedificassem, aedificasti, aedificastis, aedificat, aedificata, aedificatae, aedificate, aedificatis, aedificato, aedificator, aedificatum, aedificatur, aedificaturus, aedificatus, aedificaverat, aedificaverint, aedificaveris, aedificaverit, aedificaverunt, aedificaveruntque, aedificavi, aedificavimus, aedificavit, aedificavitque, aedificem, aedificemus, aedificent, aedificentur, aedifices, aedificet, aedificetur, aedifico, coaedificamini, condasque, condat, condatur, condentur, condere, conderet, condiderunt, condidit, condita, conditae, condite, condito, conditor, conditorum, conditum, conditus, condo, condunt, conponam, conponamus, conpone, conponens, conponentes, conponere, conponeris, conpones, conponet, conponis, conponunt, conposita, conpositae, conpositam, conpositis, conposito, conpositum, conpositus, conposuerit, conposueritis, conposuerunt, conposuit, construatur, constructa, constructum, construens, construo, construo, construxi, constructum, construxerunt, construxi, construximus, construxitque, erecta, erectae, erectas, erecti, erectio, erectionis, erectis, erecto, erectum, erectus, erexerat, erexerunt, erexi, erexisset, erexisti, erexit, erexitque, erigam, erigantur, erigas, erigat, erige, erigebant, erigens, erigent, erigere, eriges, erigetis, erigetur, erigimini, erigit, erigite, erigitur, fabricabantur, fabricabaris, fabricabimus, fabricant, fabricantium, fabricaretur, fabricasti, fabricat, fabricata, fabricatae, fabricatas, fabricati, fabricatione, fabricator, fabricatum, fabricatur, fabricatus, fabricaverunt, fabricavit, fabricet, inconposita, inconpositos, instituere, instituerunt, instituisti, instituit, instituta, institutum, institutus, instruam, instruat, instructa, instructi, instructus, instrue, instruebat, instruere, instrueret, instruis, instruite, instruxerunt, instruxit, moliaris, moliebantur, moliebatur, molimur, molirentur, muniendam, muniendum, muniens, munierit, munierunt, munita, munitae, munitam, munitas, munitis, munitum, munitus, muniunt, munivit, reaedificabo, statu, statuam, statuamus, statuas, statuat, statue, statuemus, statuendam, statuens, statuent, statuentes, statuerat, statuere, statueret, statuerit, statueritis, statuerunt, statuesque, statuet, statui, statuimus, statuisset, statuisti, statuit, statuitque, statuo, statuta, statutis, statuto, statutum, statuunt, structura, structuram, strue, struerent, strues, struxisti, struxit, texo. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | betimbran. (various references) |
| Old Provenal | 900-1500 | bastir. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 14, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | LegonteV oti outoV o anqrwpoV hrxato oikodomein kai ouk iscusen ektelesai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dicentes quia hic homo coepit aedificare et non potuit consummare |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And cweðan; Hwæt þes man agan timbrian and ne mihte hit geendian; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And myyte not make an ende. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Sayinge: this man beganne to bilde and was not able to make an ende. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 14, Verse 30 |
| Cebuano | nga managingon, `Kining tawhana igo rang misugod sa pagtukod apan wala makapahuman.` |
| Chinese | 說 、 這 個 人 開 了 工 、 卻 不 能 完 工 。 |
| Croatian | 'Ovaj èovjek poèe graditi, a ne može dovršiti!' |
| Danish | Dette Menneske begyndte at bygge og kunde ikke fuldende det. |
| Dutch | Zeggende: Deze mens heeft begonnen te bouwen, en heeft niet kunnen voleindigen. |
| Finnish | sanoen: `Tuo mies ryhtyi rakentamaan, mutta ei kyennyt saamaan valmiiksi`? |
| French | en disant: Cet homme a commencé à bâtir, et il n`a pu achever? |
| German | und sagen: Dieser Mensch hob an zu bauen, und kann's nicht hinausführen. |
| Hungarian | Ezt mondván: Ez az ember elkezdette az építést, és nem bírta véghez vinni! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka akan berkata, 'Iih, orang ini membangun, tetapi tidak dapat menyelesaikannya!' |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | katanya: Orang ini sudah mulai membangunkan bangunan, tetapi tiada dapat menyudahkan. |
| Italian | Costui ha iniziato a costruire, ma non è stato capace di finire il lavoro. |
| Latvian | Sakot: ðis cilvçks iesâka gan celt, bet nespçja pabeigt. |
| Manx Gaelic | Gra, Ren y dooinney shoh toshiaght dy vuildal, as cha row fort echey kione y cur er e obbyr. |
| Maori | Ka mea, i timata te tangata nei te hanga whare, a kihai i taea te whakaoti. |
| Norwegian | Denne mann begynte å bygge, og var ikke i stand til å fullføre det? |
| Portuguese | dizendo: Este homem começou a edificar e não pode acabar. |
| Rumanian | wi sq zicq: ,Omul acesta a knceput sq zideascq, wi n`a putut isprqvi.` |
| Russian | ЗПЧПТС: ЬФПФ ЮЕМПЧЕЛ ОБЮБМ УФТПЙФШ Й ОЕ НПЗ ПЛПОЮЙФШ? |
| Shuar | "Iiskua. Nu shuar jeamtinian nankamamiayi. Túrasha amuktinian tujinkiamiayi." ' |
| Swahili | wakisema: `Mtu huyu alianza kujenga, lakini hakumalizia.` |
| Swedish | och säga: 'Den mannen begynte bygga, men förmådde icke fullborda sitt verk.' |
| Uma | ra'uli': `Ii, ni'anu-di doko' mpowangu tomi bohe, ntaa' uma-di hono' doi-nae!' |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "build": buildable, builded, builder, builders, building, buildings, builds, buildup, buildups. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "build": misbuild, outbuild, overbuild, rebuild, unbuild, upbuild. (additional references) | |
Words containing "build": abuilding, boatbuilder, boatbuilders, boatbuilding, boatbuildings, bodybuilder, bodybuilders, bodybuilding, bodybuildings, misbuilding, misbuilds, multibuilding, nonbuilding, nonbuildings, outbuilding, outbuildings, outbuilds, overbuilding, overbuilds, rebuilded, rebuilding, rebuilds, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, shipbuilding, shipbuildings, unbuildable, unbuilding, unbuilds, upbuilding, upbuilds. (additional references) | |
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"Build" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: balid, bauld, belid, bewild, Bhuird, bild, biud, biul, bluidy, boald, boild, bolid, Bouiali, boyld, Buaiad, Bueil, buel, Buidh, buildi, buildy, buile, buldi, buldo, buyldyd, lbuklod, mbuild, quild. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "build" (pronounced bi"ld) |
| 4 | b i" l d | billed, rebuild. |
| 3 | -i" l d | Childe, chilled, killed, distilled, drilled, filled, fulfilled, gild, grilled, guild, instilled, milled, refilled, skilled, spilled, stilled, thrilled, unfilled, unfulfilled, unskilled, willed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-i-l-u" | |
-2 letters: bid, bud, dib, dub, dui, lib, lid. | |
-3 letters: bi, id, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-i-l-u" | |
+1 letter: builds. | |
+2 letters: audible, audibly, budlike, builded, builder, buildup, buirdly, bullied, rebuild, unbuild, upbuild. | |
+3 letters: audibles, bdellium, bedquilt, beguiled, bicaudal, bluebird, buddleia, builders, building, buildups, bundling, colubrid, cuboidal, doubling, duckbill, dutiable, educible, guidable, kilobaud, misbuild, obliqued, outbuild, purblind, quibbled, rebuilds, subfield, subfluid, sublimed, turbidly, unbilled, unbridle, unbuilds, unedible, unilobed, upboiled, upbuilds. | |
+4 letters: abuilding, auditable, bdelliums, bedquilts, belauding, bisulfide, bluebirds, buddleias, buildable, buildings, bundlings, colubrids, deducible, drumbling, dubiously, dubitable, duckbills, inaudible, inaudibly, inducible, jubilated, kilobauds, lullabied, misbuilds, multiband, nebulised, nebulized, outbuilds, overbuild, published, quodlibet, rebuilded, reducible, reducibly, subacidly, subfields, subsoiled, subtitled, unblinded, unbridled, unbridles, unridable, upclimbed. | |
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