different between visage vs build

English

Etymology

From Middle English visage, from Anglo-Norman and from Old French visage, from vis, from Vulgar Latin as if *vis?ticum, from Latin visus (“a look, vision”), from vid?re (“to see”); see vision.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z?d?/

Noun

visage (plural visages)

1. Countenance; appearance; one's face.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:countenance

Related terms

• visaged
• envisage
• evidence
• vision
• visionary
• visual
• visualization
• visualize

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Further reading

• visage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• visage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Veigas

French

Etymology

From Old French visage, from vis (from Latin visus) + -age, or possibly a Vulgar Latin *vis?ticum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.za?/

Noun

visage m (plural visages)

1. face (anatomy)

Synonyms

• (vulgar) tronche
• (slang) bouille
• (vulgar) gueule
• face (only used in certain constructions, or in Canada)
• figure

Derived terms

Further reading

• “visage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French visage.

Noun

visage (plural visages)

1. (anatomy) face

Synonyms

• face

Descendants

• English: visage

Old French

Etymology

vis +? -age, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *vis?ticum, from Latin visus. Compare Old Occitan vizatge.

Noun

visage m (oblique plural visages, nominative singular visages, nominative plural visage)

1. (anatomy) face

Synonyms

• vis
• face
• volt

Descendants

• Middle English: visage
  • English: visage
• French: visage

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)

1. (transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
2. (transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
3. (transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
4. (transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
5. (intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
6. (intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
7. (transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
8. (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)

2. (countable, uncountable) The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body.

   Rugby players are of sturdy build.

3. (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.

4. (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.

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