Build
- n. Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.
- v. t. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
- v. t. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
- v. t. To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; — frequently with up; as, to build up one’s constitution.
- v. i. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
- v. i. To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one’s self or one’s hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.