build
make by combining materials and parts
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,584 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,504 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- make by combining materials and parts also: construct, make this little pig made his house out of strawSome eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer
- form or accumulate steadily also: build up, work up, progress Resistance to the manager's plan built up quicklyPressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border
- build or establish something abstract also: establish build a reputation
- improve the cleansing action of build detergents
- order, supervise, or finance the construction of The government is building new schools in this state
- give form to, according to a plan build a modern nationbuild a million-dollar business
build in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Both were tall, athletic in build and well-proportioned.
The Land of the Changing Sun · Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben · Chapter 1
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This monument of my despair Build I to the All-Good, All-Fair.
Poems Household Edition · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Chapter 1
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I can in a single moment build houses or anything I desire.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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And if you know the trees in which the doves build I will climb and get the nest.
The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story · George Moore · Chapter 1
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The railroad we are going to build follows right around the rim on the other side over there.
The Winning of Barbara Worth · Harold Bell Wright · Chapter 1