What is build?

  • (verb): Found or ground.
    Example: "Build a defense on nothing but the accused person's reputation"
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on build, builds:

Visual Build
... Visual Build is GUI software for Windows that enables software developers and build masters to create an automated, repeatable process for software builds ... various development tools into the build process ...
Enviro Mission
... It has, since 2001, proposed to build a solar updraft tower power generating station known as Solar Tower Buronga in western New South Wales at a site 25 km northeast of Mildura. 12 February 2007, EnviroMission also claims to be conducting feasibility studies to build a tower or towers in Texas, U.S.A ... recently stated that it was moving forward to build two 200 MW solar updraft towers in Arizona ...
Ircon Infrastructure & Services Limited (IISL)
... undertake infrastructure projects to carry on any infrastructure construction work on Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT), Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT), Build-Lease-Tr ...
Sandgate Castle - Construction 1539-1540
... The total cost of the build was some £5,584.7s.2d ... The comptroller for the build period, Thomas Cocks, was paid the grand sum of £50 and the build employed around 500 people using 147,000 bricks, 44,000 tiles at 4s per thousand, a thousand cartloads of oak, 9.5 ...
Ogallala Commons
... to experiences and tools interns can use to build entrepreneurial careers that fit rural areas ... Over 8-week or six-month periods, interns complete projects or carry out civic activities that build capacity for communities ... At the same time, interns to gain skills and build knowledge that enhances their career development and choices ...

More definitions of "build":

  • (verb): Order, supervise, or finance the construction of.
    Example: "The government is building new schools in this state"
  • (verb): Develop and grow.
    Example: "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera"
  • (verb): Build or establish something abstract.
    Example: "Build a reputation"
    Synonyms: establish
  • (verb): Improve the cleansing action of.
    Example: "Build detergents"
  • (verb): Give form to, according to a plan.
    Example: "Build a modern nation"; "build a million-dollar business"
  • (verb): Make by combining materials and parts.
    Synonyms: construct, make
  • (verb): Be engaged in building.
    Example: "These architects build in interesting and new styles"

Famous quotes containing the word build:

    “We’ll build a democracy here, even if it’s with Nazi bricks.”
    —Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter. Samuel Fuller. Captain Harvey, Verboten! American Military Government officer explaining the practicalities of de-Nazification (1959)

    “On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.”
    —Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)