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build·ing

(bĭl′dĭng)

1. Something that is built, as for human habitation; a structure.

2. The act, process, art, or occupation of constructing.

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building

(ˈbɪldɪŋ)

1. (Building) something built with a roof and walls, such as a house or factory

2. (Building) the act, business, occupation, or art of building houses, boats, etc

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build•ing

(ˈbɪl dɪŋ)

n.

1. any relatively permanent enclosed structure on a plot of land, having a roof and usu. windows.

2. anything built or constructed.

3. the act, business, or practice of constructing houses, office buildings, etc.

[1250–1300]

build′ing•less, adj.

Building

a flock of rooks, 1470 [from their nesting habits].

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Noun	1.	building - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" edifice abattoir, butchery, slaughterhouse, shambles - a building where animals are butchered annex, annexe, wing, extension - an addition that extends a main building antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule, hall - a large entrance or reception room or area apartment building, apartment house - a building that is divided into apartments architecture - an architectural product or work aviary, bird sanctuary, volary - a building where birds are kept bathhouse, bathing machine - a building containing dressing rooms for bathers bowling alley - a building that contains several alleys for bowling center, centre - a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research" chapterhouse - a building attached to a monastery or cathedral; used as a meeting place for the chapter clubhouse, club - a building that is occupied by a social club; "the clubhouse needed a new roof" quoin, corner - (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone nook, corner - an interior angle formed by two meeting walls; "a piano was in one corner of the room" cornerstone - a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls cornerstone - a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies courtyard, court - an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings; "the house was built around an inner court" cullis - a gutter in a roof dorm, dormitory, residence hall, student residence, hall - a college or university building containing living quarters for students elevator, lift - lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building exterior door, outside door - a doorway that allows entrance to or exit from a building farm building - a building on a farm feedlot - a building where livestock are fattened for market firetrap - a building that would be hard to escape from if it were to catch fire storey, floor, story, level - a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?" foundation stone - a stone laid at a ceremony to mark the founding of a new building gambling den, gambling hell, gambling house, gaming house - a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business) gazebo, summerhouse - a small roofed building affording shade and rest government building - a building that houses a branch of government glasshouse, greenhouse, nursery - a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions hall - a large building for meetings or entertainment hall - a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research; "halls of learning" Hall of Fame - a building containing trophies honoring famous people heating plant, heating system, heating, heat - utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn't working"; "they have radiant heating" hotel - a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services casino-hotel, hotel-casino - a building that houses both a hotel and a casino house - a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house" house - a building in which something is sheltered or located; "they had a large carriage house" interior door - a door that closes off rooms within a building library - a building that houses a collection of books and other materials health facility, healthcare facility, medical building - building where medicine is practiced ministry - building where the business of a government department is transacted dead room, morgue, mortuary - a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation observatory - a building designed and equipped to observe astronomical phenomena
	2.	building - the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats" construction creating from raw materials - the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it crenelation, crenellation - the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows erecting, erection - the act of building or putting up house-raising - construction by a group of neighbors assembly, fabrication - the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) dry walling - the activity of building stone walls without mortar leveling, grading - changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface road construction - the construction of roads ship building, shipbuilding - the construction of ships rustication - the construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner reface - provide with a new facing; "The building was refaced with beautiful stones" wattle - build of or with wattle frame up, frame - construct by fitting or uniting parts together rebuild, reconstruct - build again; "The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb" groin - build with groins; "The ceiling was groined" erect, put up, set up, rear, raise - construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" preassemble, prefabricate - to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings
	3.	building - the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades" construction masonry - the craft of a mason house painting, painting - the occupation of a house painter; "house painting was the only craft he knew" plumbery, plumbing - the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) roofing - the craft of a roofer sheet-metal work - the craft of doing sheet metal work (as in ventilation systems) shingling - the laying on of shingles; "shingling is a craft very different from carpentry" business enterprise, commercial enterprise, business - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" jerry-building - construction of inferior buildings for a quick profit
	4.	building - the occupants of a building; "the entire building complained about the noise" assemblage, gathering - a group of persons together in one place

building

noun structure, house, construction, dwelling, erection, edifice, domicile, pile They were on the upper floor of the building.

Buildings and monuments

Admiralty House, Althorp House, Alhambra, Angel of the North, Arc de Triomphe, Barbican, Beehive, Big Ben, Blenheim Palace, Buckingham Palace, Cenotaph, Charminar, Cleopatra's Needle, Crystal Palace, Edinburgh Castle, Eiffel Tower, Elysées Palace, Empire State Building, Forbidden City, Hampton Court Palace, Hermitage, Holyroodhouse, Houses of Parliament, Kaaba, Kensington Palace, Knossos, Kremlin, Lambeth Palace, Lateran, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Longleat House, Louvre, Masada, Mansion House, Monument, Nelson's Column, Pentagon, Saint James's Palace, Scone Palace, Taj Mahal, Tower of London, Vatican, Palace of Versailles, Westminster Abbey, White House

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

building

noun

A usually permanent construction, such as a house or store:

edifice, pile, structure.

Translations

بناءبِناءبِنَاءدارمبنى

budovastavbastavebnístavitelství

bygning

Gebäude Bau Bauwerk Bauwesen

κτήριο κτίριο

edificio construcción

ehitamahoone

rakennus

bâtiment construction immeuble maison

בניין

zgradagradnjaizgradnjazdanje

építés

bygging

edificio costruzione fabbricato murario palazzo

建物

건물

aedificium

gebouw bouw bouwen

bygning husbygging bygging

budynek budowa budować

construção edifício prédio edificação

clădire

здание строительство стройка постройка строительный

stavebníctvo

zgradbagradnja

byggnadhusbygge

ตึก อาคาร

yapı binainşaatçılık

عمارت

toà nhàtòa nhà

建筑物建筑业建筑技术

building

[ˈbɪldɪŋ]

A. N

1. (= house, office etc) → edificio m; (at exhibition) → pabellón m

2. (= activity) → construcción f

B. CPD building block N (= toy) → bloque m de construcción (fig) → elemento m esencial, componente m básico
building contractor N → contratista mf de construcciones
the building industry N → la industria de la construcción
building land N → tierra f para construcción, terrenos mpl edificables
building lot N → solar m (para construcción)
building materials NPL → material msing de construcción
building permit N → permiso m de obras
building plot N = building lot building site N → obra f
building society N (Brit) → sociedad f de crédito hipotecario
the building trade N → la industria de la construcción
building worker N → obrero/a m/f or trabajador(a) m/f de la construcción
building works NPL → obras fpl de construcción

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

building

[ˈbɪldɪŋ] n

(= process) → construction f

(= structure) → bâtiment m
a huge building → un édifice imposant

(= block) (residential, offices) → immeuble mbuilding block n

(fig) (= constituent) → composante f

building block (to play with) → cube mbuilding contractor n → entrepreneur m (en bâtiment)building industry n → bâtiment m, industrie f du bâtimentbuilding site n → chantier m (de construction)building society n (British) → société f de crédit immobilierbuilding trade n (= sector) → l'industrie f du bâtiment
to work in the building trade [bricklayer, labourer] → travailler dans le bâtimentbuilding worker n → ouvrier/ière m/f du bâtimentbuild-up [ˈbɪldʌp] n

[gas, pressure, toxins] → accumulation f; [weapons, troops] → rassemblement m

(= preparatory period) → période f de préparation
in the build-up to sth → pendant la période précédant qch, pendant les préparatifs de qch

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

building

→ Gebäude nt; (usually big or in some way special also) → Bau m; it’s the next building but one → das ist zwei Häuser weiter; the buildings in the old town → die Häuser or Gebäude in der Altstadt

(= act of constructing) → Bau m, → Bauen nt; (of new nation etc) → Aufbau m

building

building block

n (in toy set) → Bauklotz m; (fig) → Baustein m

building contractor

n → Bauunternehmer m; buildings → Bauunternehmen nt

building costs

pl → Baukosten pl

building estimate

n → Baukosten(vor)anschlag m

building firm

n → Baufirma f

building freeze

n → Baustopp m

building industry

n → Bauindustrie f

building land

n → Bauland nt

building materials

pl → Baumaterial nt, → Baustoffe pl

building site

n → Baustelle f

building society

n (Brit) → Bausparkasse f

building trade

n → Baugewerbe nt

building worker

n → Bauarbeiter m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

building

[ˈbɪldɪŋ] n

a. (place) → costruzione f, edificio; (block) → palazzo

b. (no pl, activity) → costruzione f

build

(bild) – past tense, past participle built (-t) – verb

to form or construct from parts. build a house/railway/bookcase.

noun

physical form. a man of heavy build.

ˈbuilder noun

a person who builds houses etc. The builder who built our house has gone bankrupt.

ˈbuilding noun

1. the art or business of putting up (houses etc) (also adjective). a building contractor.

2. anything built. The new supermarket is a very ugly building.

ˈbuilding society

a business firm that lends money for building or buying houses.

ˌbuilt-ˈin adjective

forming a permanent part of the building etc. Built-in cupboards save space.

ˌbuilt-ˈup adjective

covered with houses etc. a built-up area.

build up

1. to increase (the size or extent of). The traffic begins to build up around five o'clock.

2. to strengthen gradually (a business, one's health, reputation etc). His father built up that grocery business from nothing.

building

→ بِنَاء budova bygning Gebäude κτήριο edificio rakennus bâtiment zgrada edificio 建物 건물 gebouw bygning budynek edifício, prédio здание byggnad ตึก อาคาร yapı tòa nhà 建筑物

Is there an elevator in the building? (US)
Is there a lift in the building? (UK) → Je v budově výtah? → Er der en elevator i bygningen? → Gibt es im Gebäude einen Lift? → ¿Hay ascensor en el edificio? → Onko rakennuksessa hissiä? → Ima li ova zgrada lift? → C'è un ascensore nell'edificio? → 건물에 승강기가 있나요? → Is er een lift in het gebouw? → Er det heis i bygningen? → Czy w budynku jest winda? → Tem um elevador no prédio? → Finns det hiss i huset? → Binada asansör var mı? → 这座楼里有电梯吗？

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But, when we returned to his palace, he asked me "how I liked the building, what absurdities I observed, and what quarrel I had with the dress or looks of his domestics?" This he might safely do; because every thing about him was magnificent, regular, and polite.

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The building was low, but covered an enormous area.

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Beyond this front, is there to be a fair court, but three sides of it, of a far lower building than the front.

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The building of a new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last two years, and he did not know how the rest, about

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The building was only of one story; but the dormer-windows in the roof, the paint, the window-shutters, and the cheerful fire that shone through the open door, gave it an air of comfort that was not possessed by many of its neighbors.

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Across the street and half a block down, high up in a building, I could see heads peering out.

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He came presently to a small gate beside which was a low building and before the doorway of the building a warrior standing guard.

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They were taken by surprise so far as the diplomatic situation was concerned, and their equipment for building either navigables or aeroplanes was contemptible in comparison with the huge German parks.

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Several of us argued as well as we could that the "church" mentioned in the Bible meant a party of Christians, and not a building; that the Bible spoke of them as being very poor--so poor, I thought, and so subject to persecution (as per Polycarp's martyrdom) that in the first place they probably could not have afforded a church edifice, and in the second would not have dared to build it in the open light of day if they could; and finally, that if they had had the privilege of building it, common judgment would have suggested that they build it somewhere near the town.

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The building of a bed, chairs, table, and shelves was a relatively easy matter, so that by the end of the second month they were well settled, and, but for the constant dread of attack by wild beasts and the ever growing loneliness, they were not uncomfortable or unhappy.

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The school was constantly growing in numbers, so much so that, after we had got the farm paid for, the cultivation of the land begun, and the old cabins which we had found on the place somewhat repaired, we turned our attention toward providing a large, substantial building. After having given a good deal of thought to the subject, we finally had the plans drawn for a building that was estimated to cost about six thousand dollars.

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But the important point to notice, is that these cells are always made at that degree of nearness to each other, that they would have intersected or broken into each other, if the spheres had been completed; but this is never permitted, the bees building perfectly flat walls of wax between the spheres which thus tend to intersect.