build
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪld/
rhymes: -ɪld
homophone: billed
Forms: form: builds
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form: builded
form: builded
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan
Old English bytlan
Middle English bylden
English build
From Middle English bilden, bulden, bylden, from Old English byldan and bytlan, bytlian (“to build”), from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English botl (“building, house”). More at bottle.
Senses: examples: text: It was a bridge ybuilt in goodly wize, / With curious Corbes and pendants grauen faire, [...]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 140:
text: Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
text: A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
examples: text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you [...] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
glosses: To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
examples: text: Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
glosses: To establish a basis for (something).
glosses: To form by combining materials or parts.
glosses: To develop in magnitude or extent.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
examples: text: This code won’t build any more. Have you made any changes?
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
raw_tags: of source code
Synonyms: sense: to form by combining materials or parts
word: construct
sense: to form by combining materials or parts
word: erect
sense: to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
word: create
sense: to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
word: build up
sense: to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
word: enlarge
sense: to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
word: increase
sense: to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
word: strengthen
sense: to establish a basis for
word: base
sense: to establish a basis for
word: found
sense: to establish a basis for
word: ground
word: artifice
word: assemble
word: betimber
word: build
word: compile
word: edify
word: extruct
word: fabricate
word: fashion
word: form
word: knock up
word: make
word: manufacture
word: produce
word: put together
word: put up
word: raise
word: rear
word: timber
word: upbuild
Hypernyms: word: create
Hyponyms: word: mason
word: bring about
word: compose
word: nidulate
word: quilt
word: outbuild
word: overbuild
word: rebuild
Derived terms: back-build
bookbuild
build a better mousetrap
buildability
buildable
build a bridge and get over it
build a case
build a fire under
build air castles
build artifact
build bridges
build castles in the air
build character
builddown
build down
builder
build in
build into
build on
build on sand
build out
build the plane while flying it
build-to
build-to-order
build up
build-up
build upon
built different
character-building
checked build
city-building game
cobuild
inbuild
jerry-build
misbuild
newbuild
new-build
outbuild
overbuild
post-build
prebuild
pre-build
pro-build
rebuild
Rome wasn't built in a day
self-build
town-building game
unbuild
underbuild
upbuild
Related terms: word: building
word: increase
word: nurture
word: physique