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say it: bild
build is a verb and noun meaning "make by combining materials and parts". It carries 12 recorded senses.
order, supervise, or finance the construction of
“The government is building new schools in this state”
give form to, according to a plan
“build a modern nation”
“build a million-dollar business”
be engaged in building
“These architects build in interesting and new styles”
architecture
constitution of the human body
alternative names for the body of a human being
“Leonardo studied the human body”
“he has a strong physique”
“the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for build come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.