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n. someone who does special exercises to develop the musculature.
Syn. -- musclebuilder. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. exercise that builds muscles through tension.
Syn. -- anaerobic exercise, musclebuilding. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship; a great build on a man. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Built p. pr. & vb. n. Building. The regular imp. & p. p. Builded is antiquated. ] [ OE. bulden, bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. bōl farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, böle, house, dwelling, fr. root of Icel. būa to dwell; akin to E. be, bower, boor. √97. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor aught availed him now
To have built in heaven high towers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up. Acts xx. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To erect; construct; raise; found; frame. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

The execution of works of architecture necessarily includes building; but building is frequently employed when the result is not architectural. Hosking. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire
Have cost a mass of public treasury. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the act of building up an accumulation.
Syn. -- build-up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the events, such as advertising or publicity, causing increased interest in some coming event. The buildup to Superbowl XXIV was the most intense of the series. [ PJC ]

n. Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Shipbuilding) Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes.

-- Cas"tle*build`ing, n. [1913 Webster]

a. See Clinker-built. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Naut.) Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to make without a wheel; of pottery.
Syn. -- coil. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of lofty structure; tall. “High-built organs.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

The high-built elephant his castle rears. Creech. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. someone who builds houses as a business.
Syn. -- housebuilder. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One whose business is to build houses; a housewright. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Composed of ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Loaded with ice. “Ice-built mountains.” Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. the proper name Jerry, familiar form of Jeremiah. ] A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
Syn. -- slipshod, ramshackle, flimsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Developed in an unsystematic or inexpert manner; built haphazardly; -- used of objects, organizations, plans, etc. [ PJC ]

n. someone who does special exercises to develop the musculature; a bodybuilder. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. exercise that builds muscles through tension; bodybuilding.
Syn. -- bodybuilding, anaerobic exercise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Outbuilt r Outbuilded; p. pr. & vb. n. Outbuilding. ] To exceed in building, or in durability of building. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house; an outhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To build over. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city. Usually used without the hyphen.
Syn. -- build anew, build again, reconstruct, reerect. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Built at, in, or by the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + build. ] To demolish; to raze. “To unbuild the city.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A subordinate or assistant builder. [ 1913 Webster ]

An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]