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To build is to construct or make something. When you build a house, you start at the very bottom, with the foundation, and work your way up.

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To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

Noun
constitution of the human body

Noun
alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"

Verb
develop and grow; "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera"

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form or accumulate steadily; "Resistance to the manager''s plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"

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bolster or strengthen; "We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports"

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improve the cleansing action of; "build detergents"

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found or ground; "build a defense on nothing but the accused person''s reputation"

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

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build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation"

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be engaged in building; "These architects build in interesting and new styles"

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give form to, according to a plan; "build a modern nation"; "build a million-dollar business"

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order, supervise, or finance the construction of; "The government is building new schools in this state"


v. t.
To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

v. t.
To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.

v. t.
To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.

v. i.
To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.

v. i.
To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.

n.
Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.


Build

Build , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Built ; p. pr. & vb. n. Building. The regular imp. & p. p. Builded is antiquated.] [OE. bulden, bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. b'd3l farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, b'94le, house, dwelling, fr. root of Icel. ba to dwell; akin to E. be, bower, boor. &root;97.] 1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers.
2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks.
3. To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.
I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up.
Syn. -- To erect; construct; raise; found; frame.

Build

Build , v. i. 1. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building. 2. To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.

Build

Build, n. Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.

To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.

Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.

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Usage Examples

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

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Other Usage Examples

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation.

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.

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