"build on" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "builds on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "building on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "built on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "built on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "build<,,built> on"
      },
      "expansion": "build on (third-person singular simple present builds on, present participle building on, simple past and past participle built on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 0 Arsenal”, in BBC:",
          "text": "Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger knew victory was essential here to build on the foundations of last week's 5-1 demolition of Everton and also to keep up the pursuit of a place in the top four.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To add additional elements or components to (a framework, a concept, a device, etc.) in order to extend it."
      ],
      "id": "en-build_on-en-verb-~nP2qrSC",
      "links": [
        [
          "extend",
          "extend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To add additional elements or components to (a framework, a concept, a device, etc.) in order to extend it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɪldɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bɪldɔn/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "build on"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "builds on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "building on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "built on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "built on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "build<,,built> on"
      },
      "expansion": "build on (third-person singular simple present builds on, present participle building on, simple past and past participle built on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒn"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 0 Arsenal”, in BBC:",
          "text": "Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger knew victory was essential here to build on the foundations of last week's 5-1 demolition of Everton and also to keep up the pursuit of a place in the top four.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To add additional elements or components to (a framework, a concept, a device, etc.) in order to extend it."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "extend",
          "extend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To add additional elements or components to (a framework, a concept, a device, etc.) in order to extend it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɪldɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bɪldɔn/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "build on"
}