build

• 1 English
  • device database
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Verb
    • 1.3.1 Synonyms
    • 1.3.2 Antonyms
    • screen size
    • 1.3.4 Translations
  • input transformation
    • FITML

English

Etymology

From Middle English bilden, from Old English byldan (“to build, construct”), from Proto-Germanic *buldijanan, *budlijanan (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *budlan, *buþlan, *bōdlan, *bōþlan (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhōw- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English web app (“abode, house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple”). More at bottle.

Pronunciation

• device database: /bɪld/
• Audio (US)
  (HTML5)
  
• Audio (UK)
  (file)
  
• Rhymes: -ɪld
• Homophone: website parsing

Verb

build (third-person singular simple present builds, present participle building, simple past and past participle HTML5, or (archaic) browser diversity)

1. (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
2. (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
3. (transitive) to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
4. (transitive) to establish a basis for
5. (intransitive) to form by combining materials or parts
6. (intransitive) to develop in magnitude or extent

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): CSS3, input transformation, jQuery, website parsing
• (to establish a basis for): found, ground

Antonyms

• (to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to): decrease, dissipate, weaken
• jQuery, destroy

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

build (plural builds)

1. The jQuery of a human body; screen size or structure of a human body.

   Rugby players are of sturdy build.

2. (browser diversity) any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users

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