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Definition: Building |
BuildingAdjective1. Increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree; "muscle-building exercises". 2. Rising progressively; "the building suspense"; "the heightening drama". Noun1. A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice". 2. The act of constructing or building something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats". 3. The commercial activity involved in constructing buildings; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades". 4. The occupants of a building; "the entire building complained about the noise". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "building" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Building among the Jews was suited to the climate and conditions of the country. They probably adopted the kind of architecture for their dwellings which they found already existing when they entered Canaan (Deut. 6:10; Num. 13:19). Phoenician artists (2 Sam. 5:11; 1 Kings 5:6, 18) assisted at the erection of the royal palace and the temple at Jerusalem. Foreigners also assisted at the restoration of the temple after the Exile (Ezra 3:7). In Gen. 11:3, 9, we have the first recorded instance of the erection of buildings. The cities of the plain of Shinar were founded by the descendants of Shem (10:11, 12, 22). The Israelites were by occupation shepherds and dwellers in tents (Gen. 47:3); but from the time of their entering Canaan they became dwellers in towns, and in houses built of the native limestone of Palestine. Much building was carried on in Solomon's time. Besides the buildings he completed at Jerusalem, he also built Baalath and Tadmor (1 Kings 9:15, 24). Many of the kings of Israel and Judah were engaged in erecting various buildings. Herod and his sons and successors restored the temple, and built fortifications and other structures of great magnificence in Jerusalem (Luke 21:5). The instruments used in building are mentioned as the plumb-line (Amos 7:7), the measuring-reed (Ezek. 40:3), and the saw (1 Kings 7:9). Believers are "God's building" (1 Cor. 3:9); and heaven is called "a building of God" (2 Cor. 5:1). Christ is the only foundation of his church (1 Cor. 3:10-12), of which he also is the builder (Matt. 16:18). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Building & Civil Engineering | A relatively permanent, essentially boxlike construction having a roof and often windows and enclosing within its wall space, usually more than 1 level, many activities, as living, entertaining etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Census | See structure. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A building: Lärbro church at Gotland, SwedenBuilding is either the act of creating an object assembled from more than one element, or the object itself. A building is usually a human-created object composed of more than a single element, permanently fixed to the ground, that mediates one or more aspects of the environment.
Buildings may be as simple as a lone roof providing shelter from the rain for a single occupant, or as complex as a hospital regulating temperature, air flow, light, gas content, bacteria movement, particle flow, pressure, and people movement and activities.
The design construction and operation of buildings is as old as humankind. Architects today design most large-scale buildings in a team with a large number of specialized engineers. Small residential buildings do not usually involve extensive work by architects or engineers.
Systems for transport of people within buildings:
Systems for interconnecting buildings:
- Elevator
- Escalator
- Moving sidewalk (horizontal and inclined)
See also:
- Skyway
- Underground city
Building can also refer to the act of assembling a computer program from one or more source files. In which case, like a building, the foundation must be laid. The foundations necessary in building a program are the compiler, and other dependency all spelled out in list files, and makefiles. On Windows and Mac OS Classic, you always need to obtain a compiler since those operating systems don't include one. In addition, when compiling Unix programs, or if you are interested in running a Unix environment or an environment with mostly open source software, people frequently require or recommend cygwin. While the difference doesn't really matter, building refers to the whole process of preparing a source to be run, wheras compiling is a step in the process.
- Architecture
- Autonomous building
- Building construction
- Civil engineering
- Construction robot.
- List of building types
- Famous buildings
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Building."
Synonyms: BuildingSynonyms: augmentative (adj), augmenting (adj), building(a) (adj), heightening(a) (adj), construction (n), edifice (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Tent; (covering); building; (construction); chamber; (receptacle); xenodochium. |
Deception | Whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher; tinsel; paste, junk jewelry, costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels; scagliola, ormolu, German silver, albata, paktong, white metal, Britannia metal, paint; veneer; jerry building; man of straw. |
Production | Edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit. |
Noun: {ant., } production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster; organization; nisus formativus; putting together; Verb: establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement; (completion). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | There is a building. Inside this building there is a level where no elevator can go, and no stair can reach (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Another Carver building. If I didn't know better, I'd say he developed an edifice complex (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) I think this building should be condemned (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) Then I reckon we get murdered before we leave the building, and we get fed to the pigs (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Is the building on fire (Die Hard; writing credit: Jeb Stuart) | |
Lyrics | You're building a mystery (Building A Mystery; performing artist: Sarah McLachlan) Speak to me, why are you building this thick brick wall to defend me when your silence is my greatest fear (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs) And not see a building standing tall (Cowboy Take Me Away; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) The building ain't big enough (Danger (Been So Long); performing artist: Mystikal) Everybody's building ships and boats (Mighty Quinn; performing artist: The Hollies) | |
Clever | The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials. (references; author: Mark Twain) Friendship: A building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears. (references; author: unknown) On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. (references; author: unknown) You can't prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building their nest on it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Building a Kayak: Part 1 (1967) House Building in Winter (1961) Building in the North (1961) Porky's Building (1937) Building a Building (1933) | |
Song Titles | Building For The Future (performing artist: The Foremen) Building A Mystery (performing artist: Sarah McLachlan) | |
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 | AZT in bottles is used intravenously in treating patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS. Azidothymidine is an antiviral drug which floods the cell with false DNA building blocks so that the virus cannot make copies of itself. When this happens, viral infection and replication is stopped. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Photo shows interior hallway of NCI new building in 1939. Dr. Leonard A. Scheele stands at end of hallway door. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | The Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities, established in the offices of PHS, February 10, 1942, was renamed the Office of Malaria Control in War Areas, MCWA, April 27, 1942; an MCWA Building in Newton GA., 1953. Credit: CDC. |  | A laboratory scene at Building 17, Chamblee showing the conditions of facilities of the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Credit: CDC. |
 | "Pagode" by Rainer Wonisch. Use the Scrollbar to vary A, and transform a building into a flower. |  | Analog Computing Machine in Fuel Systems Building. Credit: NASA. |
 | Building a Test Stand. Credit: NASA. |  | A very small, faint galaxy -- possibly one of the long sought "building blocks" of present-day ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Building mural. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | C&GS Building at 119 D. Street NE Figure 5, page 6 of the History of Flight and Photogrammetry. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Business Building" by Mark Pierce Commentary: "Photos taken of Office buildings in Readin, UK." | "Building in London" by Steven Kuijs Commentary: "It was unusual to see a building like this between all skyscrapers." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Low strings and ascending high strings building suspense. | | Fire alarm ringing to signify a building fire. |
| Buzzer at an apartment building door. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Cullen Hightower | Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there. |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. |
John Kenneth Galbraith | The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. |
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt | Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. |
Pliny The Elder | When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. |
Schiller | Ever building to the clouds, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy, tottering column. |
Thomas Fuller | Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. |
Thomas p Kempis | The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But conquest is as far from setting up any government, as demolishing an house is from building a new one in the place. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In particular it will be its duty to proceed to the building yards and to supervise the breaking-up of the ships which are under construction there, to take delivery of all surface ships or submarines, salvage ships, docks and the tubular docks, and to supervise the destruction and breaking-up provided for. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | In this replacement Earth we're building they've given me Africa to do and of course I'm doing it with all fjords again because I happen to like them, and I'm old fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The day on which he took up his residence in the hospital building, he resolved to appropriate this sum once for all to the following uses |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The church is not the stone building nor even the clergy and their dogmas |
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 |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The boy in white went into the iron building where his helper labored over a book of bills |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He only desired me to observe a ruined building upon the side of a mountain about three miles distant, of which he gave me this account |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I have also a small woodshed adjoining, made chiefly of the stuff which was left after building the house |
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Health | This capacity building, includes local and state health department training. (references) | |
The foods you choose become the nutrient building blocks for the growth of the fetus. (references) | ||
These coded messages are "recipes" for making amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. (references) | ||
Business | Advertising in building magazines is important. (references) | |
The same goes for suppliers of foreign building materials. (references) | ||
Local end users are property developers and building owners. (references) | ||
Children | Macau | Laws do not mandate building access for persons with disabilities. (references) |
Malaysia | By year's end, it was not possible to verify whether building by-laws had been amended. (references) | |
Swaziland | Supplemental money sometimes must be raised for building upkeep, including teachers' housing. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Macedonia | The parliament building suffered light damage. (references) |
Macedonia | Churches and mosques often are built without the appropriate building permits. (references) | |
Georgia | In 1998 the theater group brought suit, claiming that the building was never a synagogue. (references) | |
Economic History | Poland | The situation in the building industry is optimistic. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan is still building the its judicial system. (references) | |
Ukraine | Kyiv is well-supplied with imported building materials. (references) | |
Human Rights | United Kingdom | In March a car bomb exploded outside a BBC building in London. (references) |
Belize | First-time offenders are housed in the same building as those who commit capital crimes. (references) | |
Georgia | During a raid on an abandoned building on August 24, police freed Aoun after 78 days in captivity. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Dominica | Building permits are obtained from the Carib Council. (references) |
Australia | The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, an informal NGO of Aboriginals that has set up a small structure on public land opposite the Old Parliament building, seeks to publicize aboriginal grievances. (references) | |
Minorities | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Protesters stoned the building and removed Islamic symbols. (references) |
Political Economy | Croatia | With the democratic election of a new government in early 2000, the United States has been steadily building solid ties with Croatia. (references) |
OMAN | Recently, construction began on two contracts for building gas pipelines to Sohar and Salalah, which were awarded by the Omani government in 2000. (references) | |
Ghana | Indeed, present political conditions have highlighted the prospect for continuing the process of building and sustaining a democratic culture of governance in Ghana. (references) | |
Political Rights | Swaziland | Pressure has been building for several years to modernize the political system, and both the King and the Government recognize that there is a need for political reform, including the drafting of a new constitution and, specifically, a bill of rights. (references) |
Trade | Poland | No standards exist for many building products that are new to Poland. (references) |
Albania | Leading public sector projects involve road building and energy sector loans. (references) | |
Travel | Czech Rep | Start slowly by building a few good relationships. (references) |
Israel | Israel is building a new Ben Gurion International Airport Terminal. (references) | |
Oman | Except for governmental offices, most commercial building signs and road signs are in Arabic and English. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Uganda | Building codes often are not enforced. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | A worker in Sharjah died by falling from the 15th floor of a building. (references) | |
Romania | European Union funds have assisted in building capacity within the new department. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LIGHTHOUSE, n. A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains a lamp and the friend of a politician. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Anthony Quinn | Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico. |
Barry Manilow | Very catchy song. What I had fun doing was building it, starting it really little and building it and changing the key and adding the orchestra and giving it a big ending. I like that. |
Bill Clinton | That's correct. And what we need to do, therefore, is to be, in my view, we need to be aggressive, but we need to do it by building international cooperation as much as possible. Even if we have to slow down, and there's some things we can do. |
Bob Dole | I was on my way for a little physical checkup at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington. I had just walked out the door of the apartment building. I live in Watergate south. |
Dennis Miller | Experts recommend building your confidence by finding some small, fun task you're good at, and making it your hobby. |
Howard Lutnick | Well, as I saw the building I could see the smoke engulfing the top of the building and it was clear that things were going to be, things were going to be terrible. |
Rush Limbaugh | More and more people are building on this panic mentality the Democrats are spreading, but the White House is standing behind their Social Security privatization proposal. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | At your last session I called the attention of Congress to the destruction of the public building occupied by the Treasury Department. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Most all of my life as a public official has been spent here in this building. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Just as building a structure of peace abroad has required turning away from old policies that failed, so building a new era of progress at home requires turning away from old policies that have failed. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Effective diplomacy is also essential in preventing conflict, in building world understanding. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Tonight I want to examine in a broad sense the state of our American Union--how we are building a new foundation for a peaceful and a prosperous world. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Building a more peaceful world requires sound strategy and the national resolve to back it up. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | That means jobs building roads, jobs building bridges and jobs building railways. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Instead, now we are building bonds with nations that once were our adversaries. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Terror cells and outlaw regimes building weapons of mass destruction are different faces of the same evil. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Building" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.69% of the time. "Building" is used about 13,973 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 85.69% | 11,974 | 771 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 11.98% | 1,674 | 4,999 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.32% | 324 | 15,993 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13,973 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "building". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Abana | N/A | Biblical | A building |
| Binnui | N/A | Biblical | Building |
| Bunah | N/A | Biblical | Building |
| Bunni | N/A | Biblical | Building me |
| Ibneiah | N/A | Biblical | The building of the Lord |
| Jabin | N/A | Biblical | Building |
| Jabneel | N/A | Biblical | Building of God |
| Jokneam | N/A | Biblical | Building up |
| Mebunnai | N/A | Biblical | Building |
| Shaalbonite | N/A | Biblical | A fox's building |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Belgium | Koramic Building Products S.A. | China | Shanghai Huili Building Materials Company Limited |
| Hong Kong | Companion Building Material (Holdings) Limited | Israel | Industrial Building Corporation Ltd. |
| Japan | Fudo Building Research Co., Ltd. | Malaysia | Malaysia Building Society Berhad |
| New Zealand | Fletcher Building Ltd. | Singapore | Singapura Building Society Limited |
| Taiwan | Chang Ku Building CO Ltd. | United Kingdom | Nationwide Building Society |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "building": adjacent building ♦ apartment building ♦ arms building up ♦ augmenting augmentative building ♦ available for building ♦ bank building ♦ body building ♦ body building exercises ♦ building ban ♦ building berth ♦ building block ♦ building block principle ♦ building bylaws ♦ building code ♦ Building Codes ♦ building complex ♦ building contractor ♦ building contractors ♦ building cost index ♦ building costs ♦ building craft ♦ building credit ♦ building department ♦ building directory ♦ building documents ♦ building industry ♦ building inspection ♦ building integrated timing supply ♦ building kit ♦ building laborer ♦ building land ♦ building lease ♦ building licence ♦ building line ♦ building lot ♦ building material ♦ building materials ♦ building or house ♦ building permit ♦ building permits survey ♦ building pit lining ♦ building plot ♦ building project ♦ building sit ♦ building site ♦ building slip ♦ building slipway ♦ building society ♦ building start permit ♦ building stone ♦ building supply house ♦ building supply store ♦ building timber ♦ building trade ♦ building unit ♦ building up ♦ building work ♦ building worker ♦ cantonment building ♦ Capitol Building ♦ church building ♦ comissioner of a building project ♦ commercial building ♦ dilapidated building ♦ diplomatic building ♦ factory building ♦ farm building ♦ Frame building ♦ government building ♦ high level service independent building block ♦ highrise building ♦ historic building ♦ home building industry ♦ house building ♦ image building ♦ jerry building ♦ joint in building ♦ land for building ♦ let the building of a bridge ♦ listed building ♦ main building ♦ medical building ♦ morale building ♦ municipal building ♦ new building ♦ office building ♦ parliament building ♦ pile building ♦ public building ♦ rear of the building ♦ rental building ♦ residential building ♦ ribbon building ♦ riksdag building ♦ Roman building ♦ rudimentary sort of building ♦ satellite building ♦ shop building ♦ Sick Building Syndrome ♦ stock building ♦ suitable for building. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "building": building-based, building-block, building-blocks, building-boom, building-by-building, building-clubs, building-complex, building-for-building, building-in, building-land, building-leasehold, building-machine, building-materials, building-mates, building-mounted, building-over, building-plots, building-preservation, building-programme, building-sculptures, building-site, building-society, building-stones, building-style, building-tools, building-trade, building-up. | |
Ending with "building": body-building, book-building, canal-building, castle-building, character-building, consensus-building, dam-building, empire-building, house-building, image-building, machine-building, mountain-building, muscle-building, nation-building, nest-building, out-building, path-building, prison-building, railway-building, re-building, reef-building, road-building, security-building, settlement-building, station-building, team-building, web-building. | |
Containing "building": confidence-building measures. | |
| 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 |
body building | 9,787 | web site building | 692 |
building | 3,372 | building code | 631 |
team building | 2,676 | team building game | 612 |
steel building | 2,529 | pole building | 597 |
metal building | 2,465 | body building woman | 508 |
building home | 2,382 | corporate team building | 507 |
empire state building | 2,277 | box building | 484 |
building deck | 2,095 | boat building | 475 |
building material | 1,509 | building plan | 454 |
storage building | 1,479 | morton building | 426 |
muscle building | 1,165 | portable building | 404 |
team building exercise | 1,121 | home building plan | 372 |
team building activity | 1,005 | natural body building | 368 |
female body building | 986 | nationwide building society | 351 |
building supply | 891 | building contractor | 336 |
house building | 808 | building fence | 332 |
church building | 769 | body building diet | 331 |
body building supplement | 768 | building computer | 324 |
teen body building | 754 | sick building syndrome | 324 |
building construction | 735 | building a pond | 316 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "building"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | gebou (construction), aanbou (add, construction). (various references) | |
Albanian | ndërtesë (architecture, construction, edifice, house, structure, upbuilding). (various references) | |
Arabic | مبنى (construction, diction, formative, phraseology, phrasing, premises, structure, style, wording), عمارة, صناعة البناء, بنيان, بناء مهنة (construction, mason), بناء (erection, make, mason, masonry, structure). (various references) | |
Asturian | edificiu d'oficines (office building). (various references) | |
Aymara | jach'a uta. (various references) | |
Basque | eraikuntza. (various references) | |
Bemba | ofeshi (office building). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | строителство (construction), сграда (edifice, fabric, house, palisade, premises), здание (edifice, fabric), построяване (construction, erection, making, shaping, upbuilding), изграждане (becoming, construction, establishment, upbuilding). (various references) | |
Catalan | edifici (construction). (various references) | |
Chamorro | guma ofisina (office building). (various references) | |
Chinese | 房屋 (house), 大厦 (Edifice), 建築物 , 建築 (construct). (various references) | |
Croatian | zgrada. (various references) | |
Czech | budova (edifice). (various references) | |
Danish | bygning (construction). (various references) | |
Dutch | constructie (construction, structure), bouw (construction, culture, structure), gebouw (construction), bouwwerk (construction), aanbouw (construction). (various references) | |
Esperanto | konstruado, konstruaĵo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | skrivstovubygningur (office building). (various references) | |
Finnish | rakentaminen (development, project), rakentamaton, rakennus (construction, edifice, structure). (various references) | |
French | bâtiment (building activity, building industry), construction (building activity, building industry), immeuble. (various references) | |
Frisian | oanbou (construction), gebou (construction). (various references) | |
Galician | edificio. (various references) | |
German | Gebäude (buildings, construct, construction, edifice, erection, place, structure), Bauwerk (construction, edifice), Bau (burrow, construction, den, earth, erection, fabric, guardhouse, hole, lair, location, Lodge, pen, sett, slammer, structure, workings). (various references) | |
Greek | κτήριο, κτίρια (buildings), κτίριο (construction, edifice, premises, structure), χτήριο, οικοδομή (construction, edifice, pile, premises, structure). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | ndërtesë (construction). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבנה (design, fabric, format, formation, frame, set, setup, structure, texture, type), בנין (construction, erection, masonry, structure), בניין, בניה (construction), בנאות (construction, masonry). (various references) | |
Hungarian | épület (construction, edifice, erection, house, premises), építés (construction). (various references) | |
Icelandic | bygging (construction). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bina, bangunan (edifice, installation), pendirian (contention, convictions, establishment, founding, opinion, stand, stand point), gedung. (various references) | |
Italian | edificio (build, construction, edifice, fabric, house, structure), edifizio (block of flats, edifice, premises), costruzione (build, construction, fabrication, manufacture, provision). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 普請 (construction). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぞうえい (construction), たてもの (leading actor), ビルディング , ビル (bill), ふしん (center of buoyancy, construction, depression, discredit, disloyalty, distrust, doing everything one can, doubt, dullness, incomplete understanding, infidelity, insincerity, mistrust, perfidy, question, racking one's brains, slump, stagnation, strangeness, suspicion, taking pains to, unfaithfulness), かおく (house), かせつ (auspicious occasion, construction, fictional, hypothesis, provisional, supposition, temporary), かん (admiration, advise, appearance, best, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, nerves, offer, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, sensation, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, warship, writing brush), こんりゅう (erection, root nodule), けんぞう (construction), とう (and the like, be frozen over, cane, child, congeal, counter for large animals, engraving tool, et cetera, etc., foolishness, freeze, ground spider, knife, pagoda, party, place, rattan, saber, section, servant, sickle, steal, sugar, sword, T'ang-Dynasty, to accuse, to ask, to charge, to question, tower, without regard to), ちくぞう (construction), えいぞうぶつ (facility), えいぞう (construction, image, reflection, silhouette). (various references) | |
Korean | 건물 (built-up). (various references) | |
Lombard | palazz (construction). (various references) | |
Luganda | ekizimbe (one building). (various references) | |
Macedonian | kancelariska zgrada (office building). (various references) | |
Malay | bangunan (construction). (various references) | |
Manx | troggalys, troggal (arise, boost, breed, breeding, bring off, bringing up, build, 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), thie (domestic, habitation, home, homeward, house, indoor, residency), buildal. (various references) | |
Norwegian | bygning (construction). (various references) | |
Occitan | bastiment. (various references) | |
Papago | nahtoi. (various references) | |
Papiamen | konstrukshon (construction), edifisio (construction). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uildingbay.(various references) | |
Polish | budynek (construction), budowla (construction). (various references) | |
Portuguese | edifício (apartment house, edifice, erection, fabric, premise), construção (construct, erection, fabric, framing, making). (various references) | |
Provencal | immòble de burèus (office building). (various references) | |
Romanian | blochaus (apartment house), zidire (construction), fãurire, creare (coinage, creation, institution, making, organization), construire (construction, erection, fabrication, making), construcţie (architecture, build, built, construction, design, edifice, fabric, frame, framework, make up, pile, structure, style, texture), clådire (construction), clãdire (construction, edifice, fabric, structure), casã (cash desk, cash-office, chest, cottage, dwelling, establishment, family, fireside, habitation, home, homestead, house, household, hovel, lodging, lodgment, pay desk, place, roof), alcãtuialã (construction), acaret (addition, outbuilding, outhouse). (various references) | |
Romansch | edifizi. (various references) | |
Russian | здание (bdg building, bldg building, courthouse, edifice, fabric). (various references) | |
Samoan | fale ofisa (office building). (various references) | |
Scottish | togail (lifting, raising), aitreabh (a building, steading). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zgrada (house), izgradnja (build up, construction, upbuilding), građevinski (constructional, tectonic), građevina (construction, edifice, structure). (various references) | |
Spanish | edificio (construction, edifice, erection, lieu, outbuilding, place, premises), construcción (accommodation, adjustment, arrangement, building trade, construction, erection, making, setting up, structure). (various references) | |
Swedish | byggnad (architecture, build, buildings, construction, edifice, erection, setup, structure). (various references) | |
Tagalog | gusalì (construction). (various references) | |
Thai | การก่อสร้าง, ตึก, ธุรกิจก่อสร้าง. (various references) | |
Turkish | bina (structure), bína (construction), yapı (architecture, being, blood, build, 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), kurma (constitution, construction, contrivance, erecting, erection, establishment, forming, foundation, hatcher, hatching, installation, installment, instalment, institution, promotion, wind, winding up), inşaat (architecture, construction, constructional, constructive, structures), inşa etme (construction), inşa (construction, fabric), apartman (apartment block, apartment building, apartment house, block, rooms). (various references) | |
Turkmen | bina, ymarat, jaя (correct, dwelling). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | споруда (construction, erection), надвірні будівлі (backside, outbuilding), будівля (build, structure). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | binđinh, sự xây dựng công trình kiến trúc, kiến trúc, công trình xây dựng toà nhà. (various references) | |
Welsh | adeiladaeth (architecture, construction, edification), adeilad, adail (edifice, structure). (various references) | |
Yucatec | nahil (construction). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aedificatio, aedificatione, aedificationem, aedificationes, aedificationi, aedificationis, aedificii, aedificiorum, aedificium, aedificium edificium, ædificatio, ædificium, domatibus, domatum, domi, domibus, domo, domorum, domos, domui, domum, domus, domusque, edificium, opus operis, structura, structuram, superficie, superficiem, superficies. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | edor, foldbold, hof, reced. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | edifice. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 48 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | OmoioV estin anqrwpw oikodomounti oikian oV eskayen kai ebaqunen kai eqhken qemelion epi thn petran plhmmuraV de genomenhV proserrhxen o potamoV th oikia ekeinh kai ouk iscusen saleusai authn teqemeliwto gar epi thn petran |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Similis est homini aedificanti domum qui fodit in altum et posuit fundamenta supra petram inundatione autem facta inlisum est flumen domui illi et non potuit eam movere fundata enim erat supra petram |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | He ys gelic timbriendum men his hus: se dealf deopne and hys grundweall ofer þæne stan asette; Soðlice gewordenum flode hit fleow into þam huse. and hyt ne mihte þæt hus astirian. hit wæs of er þæne stan getrymed |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | He is lijk to a man that bildith an hous, that diggide deepe, and sette the foundement on a stoon. And whanne greet flood was maad, the flood was hurtlid to that hous, and it miyte not moue it, for it was foundid on a sad stoon. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | He is like a man which bilt an housse: and digged depe and layde the foundacio on a rocke. Whe the waters arose the fludde bet apo that housse and coulde not move yt. For it was grounded apon a rocke. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | He is like a man who built a house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 48 |
| Cebuano | siya mahisama sa usa ka tawo nga nagtukod ug balay, nga nagkalot ug lalum, ug nagpahiluna sa patukoranan diha sa ibabaw sa bato; ug sa pag-abut sa baha, ang bul-og mihasmag niadtong balaya, apan wala makatay-og niini, kay kini maayo man nga pagkatukod. |
| Croatian | slièan je èovjeku koji gradi kuæu pa iskopa u dubinu i postavi temelj na kamen. A kad bude poplava, nahrupi bujica na tu kuæu, ali je ne može uzdrmati jer je dobro sagraðena. |
| Danish | Han er lig et Menneske, der byggede et Hus og gravede i Dybden og lagde Grundvolden på Klippen; men da en Oversvømmelse kom, styrtede Floden imod det Hus, og den kunde ikke ryste det; thi det var bygget godt. |
| Dutch | Hij is gelijk een mens, die een huis bouwde, en groef, en verdiepte, en leide het fondament op een steenrots; als nu de hoge vloed kwam, zo sloeg de waterstroom tegen dat huis aan, en kon het niet bewegen; want het was op de steenrots gegrond. |
| Finnish | Hän on miehen kaltainen, joka huonetta rakentaessaan kaivoi syvään ja laski perustuksen kalliolle; kun sitten tulva tuli, syöksähti virta sitä huonetta vastaan, mutta ei voinut sitä horjuttaa, sillä se oli hyvästi rakennettu. |
| French | Il est semblable à un homme qui, bâtissant une maison, a creusé, creusé profondément, et a posé le fondement sur le roc. Une inondation est venue, et le torrent s`est jeté contre cette maison, sans pouvoir l`ébranler, parce qu`elle était bien bâtie. |
| German | Er ist gleich einem Menschen, der ein Haus baute und grub tief und legte den Grund auf den Fels. Da aber Gewässer kam, da riß der Strom zum Hause zu, und konnte es nicht bewegen; denn es war auf den Fels gegründet. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia seperti orang yang ketika membangun rumah menggali dalam-dalam, lalu membuat pondasinya pada batu. Pada waktu ada banjir dan air sungai melanda rumah itu, rumah itu tidak dapat digoyahkan, sebab sudah dibangun di atas pondasi yang baik. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | yaitu seumpama seorang yang mendirikan sebuah rumah, dan yang menggali sehingga dalam, lalu ditaruhnya alasan di atas batu; maka apabila tiba air bah serta arus menempuh rumah itu, tiadalah dapat menggerakkan dia, karena perbuatannya kukuh. |
| Italian | è simile a un uomo che, costruendo una casa, ha scavato molto profondo e ha posto le fondamenta sopra la roccia. Venuta la piena, il fiume irruppe contro quella casa, ma non riuscì a smuoverla perché era costruita bene. |
| Manx Gaelic | T'eh er ny hoylaghey rish dooinney ren thie y hroggal, as chleiy dy dowin, as hoie yn undin er creg: as tra dhatt yn ushtey, vrish yn thooilley stiagh dy trome er y thie shen, agh cha yiarg eh er y chraa eh; er-yn-oyr dy row yn undin echey er creg. |
| Maori | Ka rite ia ki te tangata i hanga i tetahi whare, i keri, i whakahohonu, a whakatakoto ana i te papa ki runga ki te toka: a, i te putanga o te waipuke, ka pakaru te roma ki taua whare, heoi kihai i taea te whakangaueue: no te mea i u tona hangang a. |
| Norwegian | Han er lik et menneske som skulde bygge et hus, og som gravde dypt ned og la grunnvollen på fjell; og da det blev flom, brøt strømmen imot det hus, og den var ikke i stand til å rokke det, fordi det var godt bygget. |
| Portuguese | É semelhante ao homem que, edificando uma casa, cavou, abriu profunda vala, e pôs os alicerces sobre a rocha; e vindo a enchente, bateu com ímpeto a torrente naquela casa, e não a pôde abalar, porque tinha sido bem edificada. |
| Rumanian | Se aseamqnq cu un om care, cknd a zidit o casq, a sqpat adknc knainte, wi a awezat temelia pe stkncq. A venit o vqrsare de ape, wi s`a nqpustit wivoiul peste casa aceea, dar n`a putut s`o clatine, pentrucq era ziditq pe stkncq. |
| Russian | пО РПДПВЕО ЮЕМПЧЕЛХ, УФТПСЭЕНХ ДПН, ЛПФПТЩК ЛПРБМ, ХЗМХВЙМУС Й РПМПЦЙМ ПУОПЧБОЙЕ ОБ ЛБНОЕ; РПЮЕНХ, ЛПЗДБ УМХЮЙМПУШ ОБЧПДОЕОЙЕ Й ЧПДБ ОБРЈТМБ ОБ ЬФПФ ДПН, ФП ОЕ НПЗМБ РПЛПМЕВБФШ ЕЗП, РПФПНХ ЮФП ПО ПУОПЧБО ВЩМ ОБ ЛБНОЕ. |
| Shuar | Shuar jean jeamuk emka init taur kayanam ukurmai. Tura yumi ti yutuk, entsa nujankrua tukummaitiat pukukachmai kayanam ukuamu asa. |
| Swahili | Huyo anafanana na mtu ajengaye nyumba, ambaye amechimba chini na kuweka msingi wake juu ya mwamba; kukatokea mafuriko ya mto, mkondo wa maji ukaipiga nyumba ile, lakini haukuweza kuitikisa, kwa sababu ilikuwa imejengwa imara. |
| Swedish | Han är lik en man som ville bygga ett hus och som då grävde djupt och lade dess grund på hälleberget. När sedan översvämning kom, störtade sig vattenströmmen mot det huset, men den förmådde dock icke skaka det, eftersom det var så byggt. |
| Uma | Hadua tauna mpowangu tomi, nakae tana' napomonala pai' nahu'a parawatu to moroho. Rata uda bohe pai' ue mowo' mporumpa' tomi toe, aga uma-i molengo apa' moroho parawatu-na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "building": buildings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "building": abuilding, boatbuilding, bodybuilding, misbuilding, multibuilding, nonbuilding, outbuilding, overbuilding, rebuilding, shipbuilding, unbuilding, upbuilding. (additional references) | |
Words containing "building": boatbuildings, bodybuildings, nonbuildings, outbuildings, shipbuildings. (additional references) | |
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"Building" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abdildin, Bildung, Bilsdean, Budilding, bueling, buildi, buildin, buildong, builidng, builtin, bulding, Guilding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "building" (pronounced bi"lding) |
| 6 | b i" l d i ng | nonbuilding, rebuilding. |
| 5 | -i" l d i ng | gilding. |
| 4 | -l d i ng | balding, beholding, Fielding, folding, handholding, heralding, holding, landholding, Melding, molding, moulding, overbuilding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, shielding, shipbuilding, unfolding, unyielding, upholding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, yielding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, banding, bedding, beheading, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, finding, flooding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handing, heading, heeding, herding, hiding, hoarding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unloading, unwinding, upgrading, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, wending, winding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-g-i-i-l-n-u" | |
-2 letters: biding, bluing, idling, lubing. | |
-3 letters: bindi, blind, blini, build, guild, lungi, unbid. | |
-4 letters: bind, blin, bund, bung, ding, dung, gild, glib, guid, iglu, ling, lung, nidi. | |
-5 letters: bid, big, bin, bud, bug, bun, dib, dig, din, dub, dug, dui, dun, gib, gid, gin, gnu, gul, gun, lib, lid, lin, lug, nib, nil, nub. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-g-i-i-l-n-u" | |
+1 letter: abuilding, buildings. | |
+2 letters: rebuilding, unbridling, unbuilding, upbuilding. | |
+3 letters: misbuilding, nonbuilding, outbuilding. | |
+4 letters: boatbuilding, bodybuilding, disturbingly, nonbuildings, outbuildings, overbuilding, shipbuilding, undigestible. | |
+5 letters: boatbuildings, bodybuildings, multibuilding, shipbuildings. | |
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