Word Meanings - BUILD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. bol farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, böle, house, dwelling, fr. root 1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a

Additional info about word: BUILD

bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. bol farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, böle, house, dwelling, fr. root 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. Milton. 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. Shak. 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. Acts xx. 32. Syn. -- To erect; construct; raise; found; frame.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BUILD)

• Construct
• Compose
• build
• fabricate
• form
• erect
• invent
• frame
• Erect
• Elevate
• raise
• establish
• plant
• uplift
• construct
• found
• institute
• set up
• Found
• Establish
• fix
• set
• base
• endow
• rest
• ground
• root
• Set t Seat
• place
• locate
• situate
• settle
• perpetuate
• stabilitate
• confirm
• strengthen
• determine
• appoint
• assign
• cast
• risk
• wager
• surround
• bedeck
• garnish
• stud

Related words: (words related to BUILD)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• WAGERING
  Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers. Wagering policy. See Wager policy, under Policy.
• GARNISHMENT
  1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton. Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• PERPETUATE
  To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize. Addison. Burke.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• GARNISHEE
  One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money. Note: The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee
• CONSTRUCT
  together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• GARNISHER
  One who, or that which, garnishes.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• INVENTRESS
  A woman who invents. Dryden.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• DEGARNISHMENT
  The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• REENDOW
  To endow again.