Noun: build
| Singular | build |
| Plural | builds |
Sample Sentences
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Rugby players are of sturdy build.
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According to the prevailing adolescent criteria Roger was not good looking. He had no build and did not give off very assertive, let alone aggressive vibrations. [1981 February 7, Nancy Walker, “A Gentle Guy”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 13:]
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One of the most general underwriting factors is the build of the applicant. All the insurers include build as an underwriting factor although only 18 of the 22 submitted the actual build tables. Table 9-1 shows a typical build table, which categorizes according to height, weight, and sex. The table lists average weights for each height, various ranges of weights, and the numerical rating debits or credits at the bottom of each chart column. [1983, J. David Cummins, Barry D. Smith, R. Neil Vance, Jack L. VanDerhei, Risk Classification in Life Insurance (Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance, and Economic Security; 1), Dordrecht: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 132:]
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The computer company has introduced a new prototype build to beta testers.
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This new Lego set was a very nice build.
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I made a build that looked like the Parthenon in that game.
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I made a build centered around attack speed.
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In fact, thousands of D&D players constantly debate the virtues of various character builds (combinations of race, class, feat, and spell choices) and share their efforts with each other in hundreds of message boards and mailing lists. [2005, Bill Slavicsek, Richard Baker, Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies, page 279:]
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Lower levels often mean higher stakes, with characters lacking the inflated health pools and superhuman abilities of endgame builds. [2025 February 26, Ted Litchfield, “Finding a Path”, in PC Gamer (US), number 392, page 10:]
Nouns inflected like build
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan
3. Old English bytlan
4. Middle English bylden
5. English build
6. From Middle English bilden, bulden, bylden, from Old English byldan and bytlan, bytlian (“to build”), from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English botl (“building, house”). More at bottle. False cognate of German bilden. See: Old English Nouns '
byldan', Old English Nouns '
botl'.