build
/bɪld/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.04 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "I built a shed in my backyard."
- "It was a bridge ybuilt in goodly wize, / With curious Corbes and pendants grauen faire, [...]"
- "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."
- "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."
- "He will build an organization equipped for success."
- "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."
Etymology
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. False cognate of German bilden.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bilden, byldan, *buþlijan, *buþlą, *bʰuH-
Usage
Inflected Forms
builds (present, singular)
building (participle, present)
built (participle, past)
built (past)
builded (archaic, participle)
builded (archaic, past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
built (first person, past)
builded (archaic, first person)
buildest (archaic, present)
built (past, second person)