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say it: bild
build is a verb and noun meaning "make by combining materials and parts". It is pronounced /ˈbɪld/ — bild. 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.