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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a specified physique.
- adjective Informal Having a well-developed or attractive body.
- adjective Vulgar Slang Large-breasted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Form; shape; build; mode of building.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form
- noun obsolete Shape; build; form of structure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective informal
well-built - verb Simple past of
build . - verb Past participle of
build
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
In This Yarn With a Tail, Our Heroes Thirst for Hair of the Dog
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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).
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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).
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But can you be sure that a word built on this basis in the ancestor language meant “toy doll”?
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But can you be sure that a word built on this basis in the ancestor language meant “toy doll”?
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Under the aegis of Williamson and Gary Walker, the label built up careers and even recorded Tidwell's mother, Connie Easton.
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