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Meaning of "built" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BUILT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BUILT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Built is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb built in English.

WHAT DOES BUILT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Built

Built may refer to: ▪ Built NY Inc, a New York company which designs totes, bags, and housewares ▪ Building...

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BUILT

PRESENT

Present
I build
you build
he/she/it builds
we build
you build
they build
Present continuous
I am building
you are building
he/she/it is building
we are building
you are building
they are building
Present perfect
I have built
you have built
he/she/it has built
we have built
you have built
they have built
Present perfect continuous
I have been building
you have been building
he/she/it has been building
we have been building
you have been building
they have been building
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I built
you built
he/she/it built
we built
you built
they built
Past continuous
I was building
you were building
he/she/it was building
we were building
you were building
they were building
Past perfect
I had built
you had built
he/she/it had built
we had built
you had built
they had built
Past perfect continuous
I had been building
you had been building
he/she/it had been building
we had been building
you had been building
they had been building
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will build
you will build
he/she/it will build
we will build
you will build
they will build
Future continuous
I will be building
you will be building
he/she/it will be building
we will be building
you will be building
they will be building
Future perfect
I will have built
you will have built
he/she/it will have built
we will have built
you will have built
they will have built
Future perfect continuous
I will have been building
you will have been building
he/she/it will have been building
we will have been building
you will have been building
they will have been building
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would built
you would built
he/she/it would built
we would built
you would built
they would built
Conditional continuous
I would be building
you would be building
he/she/it would be building
we would be building
you would be building
they would be building
Conditional perfect
I would have built
you would have built
he/she/it would have built
we would have built
you would have built
they would have built
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been building
you would have been building
he/she/it would have been building
we would have been building
you would have been building
they would have been building
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you build
we let´s build
you build
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to build
Past participle
built
Present Participle
building
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BUILT


gilt
ɡɪlt
guilt
ɡɪlt
hilt
hɪlt
home-built
ˌhəʊmˈbɪlt
kilt
kɪlt
Kriemhild
ˈkriːmhɪlt
lilt
lɪlt
milt
mɪlt
overbuilt
ˌəʊvəˈbɪlt
quilt
kwɪlt
rebuilt
ˌriːˈbɪlt
scratchbuilt
ˈskrætʃˌbɪlt
silt
sɪlt
spilt
spɪlt
spoilt
spɔɪlt
stilt
stɪlt
tilt
tɪlt
unspoilt
ʌnˈspɔɪlt
Vanderbilt
ˈvændəbɪlt
wilt
wɪlt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BUILT

building industry
building labourer
building land
building line
building materials
building paper
building permit
building plot
building site
building society
building trade
building trades
building worker
building works
buildings insurance
built cane
built environment
built-in
built-in obsolescence
built-up

WORDS THAT END LIKE BUILT

blood guilt
brick-built
clincher-built
clinker-built
coach-built
continental quilt
crazy quilt
custom-built
heavily built
in-built
jerry-built
patch quilt
patchwork quilt
powerfully built
purpose-built
self-built
square-built
system built
upbuilt
well-built

Synonyms and antonyms of built in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BUILT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «built» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of built

Translation of «built» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BUILT

Find out the translation of built to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of built from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «built» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

construido
570 millions of speakers

English

built
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बनाया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

встроенный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

construído
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নির্মিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

construit
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dibina
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

erbaut
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

構築された
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

내장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dibangun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xây dựng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கட்டப்பட்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बांधले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

inşa edilmiş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

costruito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zbudowany
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вбудований
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

construit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ενσωματωμένο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gebou
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

byggd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bygget
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of built

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BUILT»

The term «built» is very widely used and occupies the 2.051 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of built
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «built».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BUILT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «built» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «built» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about built

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «BUILT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word built.
1
Anthony Albanese
The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.
2
Lamar Alexander
I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.
3
David Allee
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.
4
Steven Amsterdam
A story is built on characters and reasons.
5
Graeme Base
It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty... when I was drawing army tanks or monsters, I'd do every nut and rivet, and I'd do every scale on the dragon's back. It was just the way I was built.
6
Jayson Blair
Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.
7
Wilford Brimley
The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.
8
Action Bronson
I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.
9
Rodney Brooks
The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen.
10
Nick Cannon
I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same time I've got a really serious side to me, and I think that's the balance you have to have. Get on your kids' level, but at any point in time, let them know who the parent is.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUILT»

Discover the use of built in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to built and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies.
Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras, 2011
2
Energy and Climate in the Urban Built Environment
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
M. Santamouris, 2013
3
Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture
Demonstrates how technology is more than gadgetry, exploring divergent views on technology, and drawing on literature and art to explain how technology can be built to work with ecological systems.
Thomas P. Hughes, 2004
4
Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational ...
In this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be “built to change” so they can last and succeed in today’s global economy.
Edward E. Lawler, III, Christopher G. Worley, 2011
5
The Meaning of the Built Environment: A Nonverbal ...
The Meaning of the Built Environment is a lively illustrated study of the meanings of everyday buildings for their users.
Amos Rapoport, 1982
6
Writing a Built Environment Dissertation: Practical Guidance ...
If you are an under-graduate student in the final year of an honours degree programme in the built environment, or perhaps a student at masters or PhD level and have been away from academic study for some time, then this book will help you ...
Peter Farrell, 2011
7
Built to Last
This gorgeous volume includes newly researched information about each building and how it was built.
David Macaulay, 2010
8
Built to Meet Needs: Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture
In this book, vernacular architecture specialist Paul Oliver brings together a wealth of information that spans over two decades, and the whole globe.
Paul Oliver, 2006
9
How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and ...
This edition includes updates to each chapter and new chapters on the impact of the global financial crisis and the European Union.
Anders Aslund, 2012
10
Economics for the built environment
This book sets out to explain how 'real world' issues of construction and property can be understood by the correct application of economic theory.
Marcus Warren, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BUILT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term built is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Offshore-built subs prompt voter backlash
The government has since hedged on whether the new subs should be built in Australia. Labor has accused it of doing a secret deal for ... «Yahoo7 News, Jul 15»
2
Greece economic fallout already 'built into' markets
“After five years, you have to believe a measure of the news from Greece is already built into the market,” Bruce Bittles, chief investment ... «Financial Post, Jul 15»
3
Someone's designed a dream house built into a cliff with the world's …
Apparently, we all want to live beside the seaside these days. As in right beside the seaside. Preferably on the edge of a cliff. Following the ... «Metro, Jul 15»
4
Big push to get fourth lane built on Wellington motorway
Engineer Jack Gillard explains how an old off-ramp at Kaiwharawhara was pushed sideways to join with the Wellington motorway. The off-ramp ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
5
Ecuador Built Pope Francis a Holy Bathroom
Officials in the South American country built a spacious bathroom special for Pope Francis in the port city of Guayaquil, a stop on the Pope's ... «TIME, Jul 15»
6
Cottage that Padraig Pearse built to attract 50000 visitors
Cottage that Padraig Pearse built to attract 50,000 visitors ... Pearse spent much of his time between 1903 and 1915 at the cottage he had built ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
7
Inside the TWA terminal at JFK built in 1962 that is to be turned into …
It's an airport that's been frozen in time, with bold architecture that must have seemed space age at the time. These photographs, which ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
8
Donald Trump's DC hotel being built by many workers who admit …
Trump's latest construction project in the heart of Washington D.C. is being built by laborers — some of whom admitted to crossing the U.S. ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
9
What happens to a coral reef when an island is built on top?
U.S. officials estimate that the Chinese military has built up the shallow tropical seafloor with reclaimed sand, steel, wood and concrete barriers ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
10
'Gender-neutral' restrooms for LGBTs to be built in some airports
The first of these restrooms will be built at the CAAP central office in Pasay City and in 11 commercial airports in Busuanga, Butuan, Calbayog, ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»

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