Usually means: Construct or assemble a structure.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. build: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. build: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. build: Collins English Dictionary
  4. build: Vocabulary.com
  5. Build, build: Wordnik
  6. build: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. build: Wiktionary
  8. build: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. build: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. build: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Build, build: Dictionary.com
  12. build: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. build: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. BUILD (Microsoft), Build (design conference), Build (developer conference), Build (game engine), Build (song), Build: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Build: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. build: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. build: Rhymezone
  18. build: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. build: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Build: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. build: Free Dictionary
  22. build: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. build: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. build: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. build: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. build: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  2. Technopedia (No longer online)
  3. build: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. BUILD: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. build: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. build, build: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Build: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Build: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
verb:  (transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
verb:  (transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
verb:  (transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
verb:  (intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
verb:  (intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
verb:  (intransitive, computing, of source code) To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.
noun:  (computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
noun:  (countable) The time spent building something with blocks or plastic bricks.
noun:  (gaming, slang, countable) A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, or a configuration of a character's items or skills, created by the player.

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