(~s, ~ing, built)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ something, you make it by joining things together.
Developers are now proposing to ~ a hotel on the site...
The house was built in the early 19th century...
= construct
VERB: V n, V n
~ing
In Japan, the ~ing of Kansai airport continues.
N-UNCOUNT
built
Even newly built houses can need repairs...
It’s a product built for safety.
...structures that are built to last.
ADJ: adv ADJ, ADJ for n, ADJ to-inf
2.
If you ~ something into a wall or object, you make it in such a way that it is in the wall or object, or is part of it.
If the TV was built into the ceiling, you could lie there while watching your favourite programme.
VERB: be V-ed into n
3.
If people ~ an organization, a society, or a relationship, they gradually form it.
He and a partner set up on their own and built a successful fashion company...
Their purpose is to ~ a fair society and a strong economy...
I wanted to ~ a relationship with my team.
VERB: V n, V n, V n
~ing
...the ~ing of the great civilisations of the ancient world.
N-UNCOUNT: usu the N of n
4.
If you ~ an organization, system, or product on something, you base it on it.
We will then have a firmer foundation of fact on which to ~ theories...
VERB: V n prep
5.
If you ~ something into a policy, system, or product, you make it part of it.
We have to ~ computers into the school curriculum...
How much delay should we ~ into the plan?
= incorporate
VERB: V n into n, V n into n
6.
To ~ someone’s confidence or trust means to increase it gradually. If someone’s confidence or trust ~s, it increases gradually.
Diplomats hope the meetings will ~ mutual trust...
Usually when we’re six months or so into a recovery, confidence begins to ~.
VERB: V n, V
•
Build up means the same as ~ .
The delegations had begun to ~ up some trust in one another...
We will start to see the confidence in the housing market ~ing up again.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V P, also V P to n
7.
If you ~ on the success of something, you take advantage of this success in order to make further progress.
The new regime has no successful economic reforms on which to ~.
VERB: V on/upon n
8.
If pressure, speed, sound, or excitement ~s, it gradually becomes greater.
Pressure built yesterday for postponement of the ceremony...
The last chords of the suite ~ to a crescendo.
VERB: V, V to/into n
•
Build up means the same as ~ .
We can ~ up the speed gradually and safely...
Economists warn that enormous pressures could ~ up, forcing people to emigrate westwards.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V P, also V P to n
9.
Someone’s ~ is the shape that their bones and muscles give to their body.
He’s described as around thirty years old, six feet tall and of medium ~...
N-VAR
10.
see also ~ing , built