(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.
Wainwright
Definition:
(n.) Same as Wagonwright.
Example Sentences:
(1) That's the sixth hit allowed tonight dor Wainwright.
(2) After the action-packed opening two innings the Cardinals, and particularly Wainwright, settled and the runs dried up.
(3) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(4) Leaving aside those who make difficult interviewees because they are difficult people, Sally Wainwright is probably the most difficult interviewee ever.
(5) Nothing doing for Marte who can do nothing with an inside fastball - that's four strikeouts now for Wainwright - at least Marte saw 12 pitches, but that's small consolation down seven runs.
(6) BBC1’s police thriller Happy Valley, starring Sarah Lancashire set in the Calder Valley and written by Sally Wainwright , will return for a third series after its second pulled 7 million viewers.
(7) Updated at 5.08am BST 2.26am BST Not Terry Francona (@NotCoachTito) Next inning: The Cardinals continue to depress their fans by telling them their childhood pets didn't go to a farm... @LengelDavid October 24, 2013 2.24am BST Red Sox 5 - Cardinals 0, bottom of 3rd The good news is that Wainwright has his first 1-2-3 inning of the night.
(8) Adam Wainwright , P Robinson is in and up at second, while Beltran and Holliday swap places.
(9) Matheny is on the top step - will he come and get Wainwright to get a lefty to face Ellsbury?
(10) Sir Chris took the side of those who backed the zipwire as a novel and exciting way of attracting new and younger visitors to the fells which William Wordsworth and the 20th century guidebook master Alfred Wainwright trod.
(11) A. Wainwright, P The Washington Nationals have their standard lineup as well.
(12) If the UK opts out of Europol and other JHA [justice and home affairs] measures the benefits of such co-operation cannot be guaranteed after 1 December this year, which has obvious implications in terms of public safety and national security.” Wainwright added: “If the UK does not rejoin Europol then you put at risk the benefits the UK enjoys.” Membership of Europol allows British law enforcement officers to share intelligence and design operations with European police forces to tackle serious organised crime groups plaguing the UK and to boost counter-terrorism investigations and the countering of extremism.
(13) Wainwright, 50, was born in Huddersfield and brought up in the Halifax and Calder Valley area, where Happy Valley is set, and studied English at York University.
(14) Some – including the Guardian’s architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright – suggested it was a “strange time” to be opening the biggest civic library in Europe.
(15) Wainwright grew up between Huddersfield and Brontë country in Yorkshire.
(16) Although the double-decker bus height sarsens are undoubtedly the most impressive, Darvill and Wainwright believe they were essentially an architectural framework for the bluestones, just as towering medieval cathedrals grew over the shrines of saints.
(17) A fractured right mandible with midlength nonunion and oral lesions were noted in a subsistence-harvested female bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) near Wainwright, Alaska (USA).
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Over on the Guardian Cities site , Oliver Wainwright asks : If Apartheid ended 20 years ago, why is Cape Town still a paradise for the few?
(19) Burnett, who faces Adam Wainwright in Game One, and that shark tank of a bullpen, are your team here, especially when you consider the Redbirds bats were somewhat cooler in the second half.
(20) Few writers can make their characters speak with the kind of bristling naturalism that litters a Wainwright script.