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verb

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

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."

Synonyms: To erect; construct; raise; found; frame.

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

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.

noun

Building n.

1.

The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. "Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster."

2.

The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture. "The execution of works of architecture necessarily includes building; but building is frequently employed when the result is not architectural."

3.

That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc. "Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire Have cost a mass of public treasury."

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Etymology of 'Building'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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