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BUILD-UP

Specialty Definition: BUILD-UP

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Medicine

A phenomenon of an increase with depth of the absorbed dose rate due to the release of electrons and to scattered radiation in matter beyond the entrance surface. Source: European Union. (references)

Military & Defense

The process of attaining prescribed strength of units and prescribed levels of vehicles, equipment, stores and supplies. Also may be applied to the means of accomplishing this process. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: BUILD-UP

Synonyms by domain: build up (geography, miningindustry), buildup (public administration, food & agricultureenvironment, medicinefood & agriculture), build-up effect (medicine, physics).

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Crosswords: BUILD-UP

Specialty definitions using "BUILD-UP": Airy phasehush houseIon-exchange, irradiated fuellevitation forcepseudomyxoma peritoneirun-up hangarUrban and built-up areaswave motion. (references)

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Modern Usage: BUILD-UP

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Movie/TV Titles

The Big Build-Up (1942)

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Photo Album: BUILD-UP

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These are various images of a patient being treated with hyperthermia. Whole body hyperthermia is a method to raise a patient's body temperature for the treatment of advanced cancer. This technique is based on laboratory studies that show cancer cells are more sensitive to heat injury than normal cells. Physicians induce hyperthermia using a high-flow water suit controlled by a microprocessor, a machine which closely monitors body temperature. The patient's body temperature is raised by the insulated build-up of metabolic (body) heat, plus by the heat delivered by the warm-water suit. Credit: Mike Mitchell (photographer).

Shown is a patient being treated with hyperthermia. Whole body hyperthermia is a method to raise a patient's body temperature for the treatment of advanced cancer. This technique is based on laboratory studies that show cancer cells are more sensitive to heat injury than normal cells. Physicians induce hyperthermia using a high-flow water suit controlled by a microprocessor, a machine which closely monitors body temperature. The patient's body temperature is raised by the insulated build-up of metabolic (body) heat, plus by the heat delivered by the warm-water suit. Credit: Mike Mitchell (photographer).

Dr. Oren is examining a child with respiratory paralysis. A suction machine is used in conjunction with a tracheostomy tube to help in suctioning sputum build-up from the lungs. Credit: CDC.

  

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Non-Fiction Usage: BUILD-UP

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Health

Bed rest and resting on your side will help you to lose the build-up of fluid. (references)

The build-up of uric acid within the body causes agonizing episodes of self-mutilation and may result in severe retardation and, ultimately, death. (references)

If cocaine is present, it attaches to the dopamine transporter and blocks the normal recycling process, resulting in a build-up of dopamine in the synapse which contributes to the pleasurable effects of cocaine. (references)

Business

Singapore's engineering industry, of which process engineering is one of three key industry sectors, is expected to maintain its build-up of technical expertise and process know-how and contribute to the growth of the manufacturing sector. (references)

Economic History

Cuba (09/01)

The tonnage of Soviet military deliveries to Cuba throughout most of the 1980s exceeded deliveries in any year since the military build-up during the 1962 missile crisis. (references)

Barbados

During 2000, commercial banks' holdings of excess cash and securities increased to 7.7 percent, rising by 4.1 percent, compared to a 4.7 percent decline during 1999. The build-up is attributable to sluggish private sector credit growth and significant private sector capital inflows. (references)

China

Tighter control of the banking system has also led to a build-up of inter-company "triangular" debt, estimated at around RMB 1.3 trillion in 1999. SOE inventories remain high, although the increase in inventories for the economy as a whole slowed from 15% per year in 1998 to less than 6% in 1999. This slowdown occurred as SOEs finally wrote off their stockpiles of unmarketable or low-quality goods. (references)

Political Economy

Bangladesh

There were 27 days of nationwide general strikes in 1999, and 13 full or part days of general strikes in 2000. In the first six months of 2001, there were 22 days of nationwide strikes during the build-up to parliamentary elections. (references)

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

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Speeches: BUILD-UP

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John F. Kennedy

1961-1963This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military build-up on the island of Cuba.

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Usage Frequency: BUILD-UP

"BUILD-UP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BUILD-UP" is used about 500 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%50012,043

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: BUILD-UP

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "BUILD-UP": Anti-build-up.

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Modern Translation: BUILD-UP

Language Translations for "BUILD-UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

paasvejsning (build-up effect), opbygning (implementation, piling), forøgelse af afbøjning i retningsboring, akkumulering (accumulation, aggrégation, build-up effect, congestion, cumulation, stocking, storing). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

opbouw (construction), georiënteerde boorafwijking, accumulatie (accumulation). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lisääntyminen (increase, multiplication, propagation, reproduction), kertyminen (accumulation, build-up effect, infiltration of tumor cells, infiltration of tumour cells, retention, storage, tumor infiltration, tumour infiltration), kallistuskohta. (various references)

   

French

  

alignement sur le tableau d'effectifs, accumulation (build up), accroissement de la déviation. (various references)

   

German

  

build-up-Effekt (build-up effect), Aufschweissung (build-up effect), Aufbaueffekt (build-up effect), Abweichungsaufbau. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επαύξηση (accrual, increment, intensification), αύξηση της απόκλισης, διόγκωση κρούστας (build-up effect). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

konstrukció (buildup, design), felépítés (build, build up, buildup, conformation, erection, fabrication, set up, set-up, structure, synthesis, upbuilding), építmény (buildup, edifice, erection). (various references)

   

Italian

  

build-up (build-up effect), incrostazione (cake, crust, crusting, encrustation, fur, incrustation, scale), aumento della deviazione. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

형성 (buildup, Configuring, Forming, shaping). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Portuguese

  

acumulação (accumulation, assembly, congeries, jamming). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

incrustación (fur, incrustation, inlay, inset, overlay, scale, scurf), aumento de la desviación, acumulación (accumulation, collection, drift, hoard, hoarding). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tillväxt (accretion, development, growth, increase, increment, recession), påbyggnad (raising). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự tăng cường dần lực lượng vũ trang. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BUILD-UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: buildup, upbuild.

Words within the letters "b-d-i-l-p-u-u"

-2 letters: build.

-3 letters: blip, puli.

-4 letters: bid, bud, dib, dip, dub, dui, dup, lib, lid, lip, piu, pub, pud, pul, ulu.

-5 letters: bi, id, li, pi, up.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-i-l-p-u-u"
 

+1 letter: buildups, upbuilds.

 

+3 letters: upbuilding.

 

+4 letters: unpublished.

 

+5 letters: undisputable, unpublicized.

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

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Quotations: Speeches
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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