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Building

noun

1.

A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place. Synonym: edifice. "It was an imposing edifice"

2.

The act of constructing something. Synonym: construction. "His hobby was the building of boats"

3.

The commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones. Synonym: construction. "Workers in the building trades"

4.

The occupants of a building.

Build

verb

(past & past part. built; pres. part. building; the regular past & past part. builded is antiquated)

1.

Make by combining materials and parts. Synonyms: construct, make. "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"

2.

Form or accumulate steadily. Synonyms: build up, progress, work up. "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"

3.

Build or establish something abstract. Synonym: establish.

4.

Improve the cleansing action of.

5.

Order, supervise, or finance the construction of.

6.

Give form to, according to a plan. "Build a million-dollar business"

7.

Be engaged in building.

8.

Found or ground.

9.

Bolster or strengthen. Synonyms: build up, ramp up, work up. "Build up confidence" , "Ramp up security in the airports"

10.

Develop and grow.

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"Building" Quotes from Famous Books

... happened in my own county and town, where thousands of men, including many of my old Free Soil brethren, assembled as an organized mob to suppress the freedom of speech; and they succeeded by brute force in taking possession of every building in which their opponents could meet, and silencing them by savage yells. At one time I think I had less than a dozen political friends in the State, and I could see in the glad smile which lighted up the faces of my old- time enemies that they considered ...

— Political Recollections - 1840 to 1872 • George W. Julian

... in which he and his master were confined, was in some respects not unfavourable to the prosecution of such a scheme. It was in a very old and ruined building, on the banks of one of those rivers which rise in the Pyrenean mountains and fall into the Upper Garonne. The turret allotted to the prisoners commanded a view which, under other circumstances, John would have admired as reminding him of the wild scenes in his native country. Almost close to ...

— The Eskdale Herd-boy • Mrs Blackford

... be employed in the next campaign, and he was anxious to get to the work; but Chauncey, who felt the need of his aid, detained him for a while on Lake Ontario. He, however, toward the end of March, reached Erie, where the vessels were building. ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 • Various

... and father were living on the plantation, they lived in an old frame building. A portion of it was log. My father stayed with the Calverts—his wife's white folks. At first old man Webb sold him to them; then he bought him back and bought my mother too. They were together when freedom came. You know they auctioned you off in slavery time. Every year, they ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration

... the grape is seldom fruitful, for the vines can rarely be cultivated or deprived of their luxuriant growth as in the vineyard. Nevertheless, grapes grown as ornamentals can be trained so as to serve the double purpose of ornamental and fruit-bearing plant. Grown on the sides of a building, the grape often can be made to bear large crops of choicely fine fruit. The ancients had learned this, for the Psalmist says: "Thy wife shall be like the fruitful vine by ...

— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick

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