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Definition of Build

Build

  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.
  2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
  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.
  4. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
  5. 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.
  6. Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.

Build Quotations

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett
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Build Translations

build in Danish is bygge
build in Dutch is aanleggen, bouwen, construeren
build in German is aufbauen, bauen
build in Italian is edificare, fabbricare
build in Latin is condo
build in Spanish is construir

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