built-up
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Constructed or enhanced.
adj
Having buildings, especially having residences and high population density.
adj
(of an area of land) Having street lights and therefore subject to a 30 mph speed limit.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "Built-up weights in the wheels balance the revolving and 50 per cent of the reciprocating weight."
- "Lyness' built-up pilings were not high enough to keep the ground floor above water during this flood."
- "The picture below dates to about 1860 and shows the Point not too many years after the construction of the Long Dock, seen here as a strip of built-up roadway just wide enough for two horsedrawn wagons to pass each other."
- "Forget any idyllic Garden of Eden of running when we ran barefootand naked before Adam plucked a shoe with a built-up heel from the tree of running."
- "Gunther's car was a '38 Oldsmobile with a built-up seat and special elongated pedals put on by Arnie the garageman for a reasonable price."
- "The stained-glass windows were cleaned; years of built-up soil removed from the murals; the wooden pews sanded and refinished, the kneeling benches covered with soft new carpeting."
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
more built-up (comparative)
most built-up (superlative)
built up (alternative)
builtup (alternative)