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build
English
Etymology
From Middle English bilden, from Old English byldan (“to build, construct”), from Proto-Germanic *buþlijan? (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *buþl?, *b?þl? (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH- (“to become, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English bold (“abode, house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple”). More at bottle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?ld/
- Rhymes: -?ld
- Homophone: billed
Verb
build (third-person singular simple present builds, present participle building, simple past and past participle built or (archaic or poetic) builded)
- (transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
- (transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
- (transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
- (transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
- (intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
- (intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
- (transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
- (intransitive, computing, of source code) To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
Conjugation
Usage notes
- The simple past tense and past participle used to be builded; however, that form is now archaic, having been superseded by the form built.
- I have seen Him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps / They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps. (Julia Ward Howe, Battle Hymn of the Republic - 1861)
Synonyms
- (to form by combining materials or parts): construct, erect
- (to develop or give form to according to a plan or process): create
- (to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to): build up, enlarge, increase, strengthen
- (to establish a basis for): base, found, ground
Antonyms
- (to form by combining materials or parts): demolish, destroy, ruin, wreck
- (to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to): decrease, dissipate, weaken
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
build (countable and uncountable, plural builds)
- (countable, uncountable) The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body.
- Rugby players are of sturdy build.
- (computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
- The computer company has introduced a new prototype build to beta testers.
- (gaming, slang, countable) A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, or a configuration of a character's items or skills, created by the player.
- I made a build that looked like the Parthenon in that game.
- 2005, Bill Slavicsek, Richard Baker, Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies (page 279)
- In fact, thousands of D&D players constantly debate the virtues of various character builds (combinations of race, class, feat, and spell choices) and share their efforts with each other in hundreds of message boards and mailing lists.
Translations
build From the web:
- what building has the most stories
- what building does congress meet in
- what building is pictured below
- what builds muscle
- what buildings are housed in the current capital
- what builds credit
- what building is the legislative branch in
- what building is the judicial branch in
shape
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sh?p, IPA(key): /?e?p/
- Rhymes: -e?p
Etymology
From Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ?esceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skap? (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Middle Dutch schap (“form”), Middle High German geschaf (“creature”), Icelandic skap (“state, condition, temper, mood”).
The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-Germanic *skapjan? (“to create”), from the noun. Cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian skapa (“create”).
Noun
shape (countable and uncountable, plural shapes)
- The status or condition of something
- The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
- Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
- The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
- We exercise to keep in good physical shape.
- The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure.
- He cut a square shape out of the cake.
- What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
- Form; formation.
- 2006, Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light:
- What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?
- 2006, Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light:
- (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
- (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
- (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, page 74:
- ‘And if I'm late for supper there's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there's a little rhubarb and shape.’
- 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 111:
- It was brawn and shape for high tea.
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, page 74:
- (gambling) A loaded die.
- 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized Crime: Hearings (page 76)
- A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning.
- 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized Crime: Hearings (page 76)
- (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:shape
Hyponyms
- contest shape
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Forms and shapes
Verb
shape (third-person singular simple present shapes, present participle shaping, simple past shaped or (obsolete) shope, past participle shaped or (archaic) shapen)
- (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
- 1685, Satan's Invisible World Discovered?
- Which the mighty God of heaven shope.
- 1685, Satan's Invisible World Discovered?
- (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
- 1932, The American Scholar, page 227, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa
- The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments.
- 1932, The American Scholar, page 227, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa
- To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
- Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
- (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
- To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
- (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.
Synonyms
- (give shape): form, mold
Derived terms
- beshape
- foreshape
- forshape
- misshape
- overshape
- shape up
Translations
References
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
- shape in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- shape at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- HEPAs, Heaps, ephas, heaps, phase
shape From the web:
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- what shape is a stop sign
- what shape has 7 sides
- what shape is the earth
- what shape is my face
- what shape has 10 sides
- what shapes are quadrilaterals
- what shape has 9 sides
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