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Building

noun

1.

A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place. Synonym: edifice. "It was an imposing edifice"

2.

The act of constructing something. Synonym: construction. "His hobby was the building of boats"

3.

The commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones. Synonym: construction. "Workers in the building trades"

4.

The occupants of a building.

Build

verb

(past & past part. built; pres. part. building; the regular past & past part. builded is antiquated)

1.

Make by combining materials and parts. Synonyms: construct, make. "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"

2.

Form or accumulate steadily. Synonyms: build up, progress, work up. "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"

3.

Build or establish something abstract. Synonym: establish.

4.

Improve the cleansing action of.

5.

Order, supervise, or finance the construction of.

6.

Give form to, according to a plan. "Build a million-dollar business"

7.

Be engaged in building.

8.

Found or ground.

9.

Bolster or strengthen. Synonyms: build up, ramp up, work up. "Build up confidence" , "Ramp up security in the airports"

10.

Develop and grow.

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"Building" Quotes from Famous Books

... Odin's Sons, and innumerable other Twelves. Any vague rumour of number had a tendency to settle itself into Twelve. So with regard to every other matter. And quite unconsciously too,—with no notion of building-up 'Allegories'! But the fresh clear glance of those First Ages would be prompt in discerning the secret relations of things, and wholly open to obey these. Schiller finds in the Cestus of Venus an everlasting ...

— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle

... knew that there must be a great number of rooms in the house which were never opened; but no one had ever proposed to show them to me, and I was not sufficiently curious to ask permission to visit the disused apartments. I had observed, however, that a wing of the building ran into an inclosure, surrounded by a wall seven or eight feet high, against which were ranged upon the one side a series of hot-houses, while another formed the back of a covered tennis court. The third wall of the inclosure was covered with a lattice, upon which fruit trees had been trained ...

— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford

... freak of the caliphs, the construction of the palace of Azahra, of which not a vestige now exists, we may form a sufficient notion of the taste and magnificence of this era from the remains of the far-famed mosque, now the cathedral of Cordova. This building, which still covers more ground than any other church in Christendom, was esteemed the third in sanctity by the Mahometan world, being inferior only to the Alaksa of Jerusalem and the temple of Mecca. Most ...

— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott

... committee, which undertook to influence the troops now pouring into Petrograd. But the center of the revolution was still the Duma, and crowds gathered to listen to its speeches. In the evening Protopovo surrendered to the Russian guards, but General Khabalov still occupied the Admiralty building with ...

— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish

... endure the place. Every day was so appallingly like the last. There was nothing for me to do but to dream; I dreamed of everything. I longed to get alone and let my fancy wander—weaving tales of which I was the hero, building castles of which I was ...

— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore

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