Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past tense and past participle of build.
- adj. Having a specified physique: a heavily built boxer.
- adj. Informal Having a well-developed or attractive body: a dancer who is really built.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Constructed; formed; shaped; made: often used of the human body, and frequent in compound nautical terms, as clincher-built, clipper-built, frigate-built, etc.
- Constructed of different pieces; not composed of one piece: as, a built mast or block; a built rib.
- n. Form; shape; build; mode of building.
Wiktionary
- adj. informal well-built
- v. Simple past of build.
- v. Past participle of build
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Shape; build; form of structure.
- adj. Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness
Examples
“FIDDLER'S GREEN BASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Decades ago development experts from Washington built the town of Marjah in southern Afghanistan in order to populate a desert they had helped irrigate with a network of U. S.-built canals.”
“The F/A-18 fighter, built in Australia under license from the U.S. manufacturer, is the principal combat aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force, backed by the U. S.-built F-111 strike aircraft.”
“Ms. Dirks and several fellow members of the Handweavers Guild of Boulder are setting out to boost acceptance of dog hair—or, as they prefer to call it, chiengora, a term built around the French word for dog that also evokes the luxurious feel of angora.”
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“His four solo records for the label built on one another like a coming-of-age tale and ranged stylistically from the giddy Cheap Trick-style pop of "Sha Sha" (2002) and "On My Way" (2004) to his first record after moving to Austin in 2008, the appropriately country-themed "Changing Horses" (which was co-released with The Noise Company).”
“But can you be sure that a word built on this basis in the ancestor language meant “toy doll”?”
“Under the aegis of Williamson and Gary Walker, the label built up careers and even recorded Tidwell's mother, Connie Easton.”
“Adkins was the original star of Norton Records, a label built around the primal recordings Adkins produced in his mountain home, beginning in the Eisenhower era.”
““Each freighter, since the very first one we built, is given a unique name,” the technician explained.”
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“He left behind everything he worked on and built from the ground up, as well as moved his family across the country for this gig.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘built’.
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
limit, pack, automatic, HTTP, database, poi, event, coverage, core, hibernate, function, product and 310 more...
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Past tense in -t.
Some words are always like this. Some only when British or archaic. Some are just fun.
built, spent, bent, spilt, spoilt, ruint, thought, caught, brought, wisht, pent, spelt and 74 more...
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Words that start with B
butterfly, brain, broom, break, brick, brilliant, bubbles, balloons, bananas, bow, book, bunny and 37 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Playground Completed Despite Rain - S...
Words from this news story:
http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=activity1&t...despite, slide, sandbox, organizer, material, extremely, project, ruined, tunnels, rebuilt, built, completed and 2 more...
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March13th_AV
southern, autumn, fall, majority, annoying, outlet, demolish, pipe, burst, built, tear, tore and 2 more...
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EU - What was Joao talking about in 2...
The 100 most frequent words in Joao Barroso's "State of the European Union" address in September 2011
act, adopted, already, approach, area, bank, believe, billion, bonds, built, capital, citizens and 87 more...
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five-letter words starting with 'b'
blame, bland, brute, basic, basis, bribe, brand, borne, birth, billy, balmy, brash and 57 more...
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vt 26-30
bring, brought, burn, burnt, build, built, broadcast, browbeat, browbeaten
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