(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(4) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(5) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(6) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(7) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(8) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(9) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(10) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
(11) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
(12) The fire at Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building was reported at about 12.30pm.
(13) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(14) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(15) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
(16) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(17) ... and the #housingstrategy on Twitter: Robin Macfarlane, a retired businessman: @MacfarlaneRobin House building should have been on the agenda from day one.
(18) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(19) Mortality rates naturally vary considerably, but in earthquakes, for example, the number of deaths per 100 houses destroyed can give an indication of the adequacy of building techniques.
(20) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.
Camerate
Definition:
(v. i.) To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.
(v. i.) To divide into chambers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scintillation camer superior venacavogram provides a quick, safe, and accurate method of evaluating the patency of the SVC and its tributaries.
(2) The presence of normal major coronary arteries and absence of any small myocardial coronary branches from the tunnel argues against the structure being a coronary-cameral fistula and supports the diagnosis of aortico-right atrial tunnel.
(3) A coronary-cameral fistula was inspected clinically by two-dimensional and pulsed Doppler ultrasound.
(4) Gross coronary anomalies included coronary-cameral communications (n = 29), single left coronary artery (n = 2), single right coronary artery (n = 1) and tortuosity (n = 19).
(5) Coronary cameral fistulae in 208 orthotopic heart transplants performed at Papworth Hospital were examined.
(6) The mean transepithelial potential was +4.04 mV (cameral side positive to stroma).
(7) In 1983, five years after becoming prime minister, he introduced a constitution for a "tri-cameral" parliament in which whites, coloureds and Indians were given representation.
(8) He was demonstrated to have a ventricular septal defect, mitral regurgitation, and two coronary-cameral fistulas.
(9) Coronary cameral fistulae are an uncommon complication of heart transplantation and follow-up biopsy, and appear to be of no haemodynamic significance.
(10) In addition, this technique allowed the demonstration of primitive vascular communications between the coronary artery and left ventricular cavity in 1 patient (coronary-cameral fistula).
(11) The occurrence of producing an ocular hypertension in the untreated fellow eye following repeated intra-cameral injections of small dosage (1 microgram) of Triethyltin, every two days for more than one month, in the other eye is described.
(12) A case is reported in which multiple needles were inserted into the heart by a patient, resulting in the unusual combination of a coronary artery-cameral fistula to the left ventricle, an intramural defect of the left ventricular free wall and a ventricular septal defect.
(13) Coronary-cameral communications and tortuosity were significantly associated with the subgroup that had mitral hypoplasia and aortic atresia.
(14) She, too, became its Creative Director, appearing at CES in 2010 to launch camere glasses.
(15) Annual arteriograms performed in cardiac transplant recipients have revealed several distinctive angiographic features that include clockwise rotation of the heart, presence of coronary arterial-cameral fistulae, presumably resulting from right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy specimens and collateralization of the brachial anastomosis from coronary atrial branches.
(16) The regional cerebral blood flow, the regional blood flow distribution, and the regional distribution of perfused (= vital) brain tissue been imaged with a digitalized conventional Anger camer.
(17) Twenty two years after surgical ligation of a large coronary-cameral fistula originating from the circumflex artery and terminating to the right atrium, non-sustained exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia occurred in a 26-year-old male with known Klinefelter (XXY) syndrome.
(18) Twelve traumatic coronary artery-cameral fistulas have been reported in the world's literature.