build

It was a bridge ybuilt in goodly wize, / With curious Corbes and pendants grauen faire, [...]

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 140:

Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:

A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you [...] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:

(transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.

Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

(transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.

(transitive) To establish a basis for (something).

(intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.

(intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.

(transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.

This code won’t build any more. Have you made any changes?

(intransitive, computing, of source code) To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.

en-verb

build (third-person singular simple present builds, present participle building, simple past and past participle built or (archaic or poetic) builded)

builds (present singular third-person)
building (participle present)
built (participle past)
built (past)
builded (archaic participle past poetic)
builded (archaic past poetic)
build (infinitive)

demolish

antonym(s) of “to form by combining materials or parts”

decrease

antonym(s) of “to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to”

bou

(transitive) to form by combining materials or parts

կերտել

(transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process

opbouwen

(transitive) to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to

tu

(intransitive) to form by combining materials or parts

rakentua

(intransitive) to develop in magnitude or extent

компилирам

(transitive, computing) to construct software by compiling its source code

koota

(intransitive, computing) to be constructed by compilation of source code

Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan
Old English bytlan
Middle English bylden
English build
From Middle English bilden, bulden, bylden, from Old English byldan and bytlan, bytlian (“to build”), from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English botl (“building, house”). More at bottle.


build

Rugby players are of sturdy build.

(countable, uncountable) The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.

The computer company has introduced a new prototype build to beta testers.

(computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.

This new Lego set was a very nice build.

(countable) The process or period of constructing a physical object.

I made a build that looked like the Parthenon in that game.

In fact, thousands of D&D players constantly debate the virtues of various character builds (combinations of race, class, feat, and spell choices) and share their efforts with each other in hundreds of message boards and mailing lists.

2005, Bill Slavicsek, Richard Baker, Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies, page 279:

(gaming, slang, countable) A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, or a configuration of a character's items or skills, created by the player.

en-noun

build (countable and uncountable, plural builds)

версия

any version of a software during its development