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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JERRY-BUILD

noun
adjective
verb
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preposition
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determiner
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Jerry-Build 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 jerry-build in English.

WHAT DOES JERRY-BUILD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of jerry-build in the English dictionary

The definition of jerry-build in the dictionary is to build badly using cheap materials.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO JERRY-BUILD

PRESENT

Present
I jerry-build
you jerry-build
he/she/it jerry-builds
we jerry-build
you jerry-build
they jerry-build
Present continuous
I am jerry-building
you are jerry-building
he/she/it is jerry-building
we are jerry-building
you are jerry-building
they are jerry-building
Present perfect
I have jerry-built
you have jerry-built
he/she/it has jerry-built
we have jerry-built
you have jerry-built
they have jerry-built
Present perfect continuous
I have been jerry-building
you have been jerry-building
he/she/it has been jerry-building
we have been jerry-building
you have been jerry-building
they have been jerry-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 jerry-built
you jerry-built
he/she/it jerry-built
we jerry-built
you jerry-built
they jerry-built
Past continuous
I was jerry-building
you were jerry-building
he/she/it was jerry-building
we were jerry-building
you were jerry-building
they were jerry-building
Past perfect
I had jerry-built
you had jerry-built
he/she/it had jerry-built
we had jerry-built
you had jerry-built
they had jerry-built
Past perfect continuous
I had been jerry-building
you had been jerry-building
he/she/it had been jerry-building
we had been jerry-building
you had been jerry-building
they had been jerry-building
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

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

CONDITIONAL

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

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you jerry-build
we let´s jerry-build
you jerry-build
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to jerry-build
Past participle
jerry-built
Present Participle
jerry-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 BEGIN LIKE JERRY-BUILD

jerkingly
jerkinhead
jerks
jerkwater
jerkwater town
jerky
jeroboam
Jerome
jerque
jerquer
jerreed
jerrican
jerrid
jerries
jerry
jerry can
jerry-builder
jerry-building
jerry-built
jersey

WORDS THAT END LIKE JERRY-BUILD

build
custom-build
dean of guild
guild
misbuild
new build
new-build
outbuild
overbuild
prebuild
rebuild
scratchbuild
self-build
unbuild
underbuild
upbuild

Synonyms and antonyms of jerry-build in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «jerry-build» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF JERRY-BUILD

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

Translator English - Chinese

杰里 - 建设
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

jerry - build
570 millions of speakers

English

jerry-build
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जेरी का निर्माण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جيري والبناء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Джерри - сборки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

jerry -build
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জেরি-বিল্ড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

jerry -build
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jerry-build
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Jerry -build
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ジェリー·ビルド
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

날림 빌드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jerry-build
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

jerry - xây dựng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஜெர்ரி-உருவாக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जेरी-बिल्ड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Jerry-build
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

jerry -build
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

jerry -build
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Джеррі - збірки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jerry - build
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

jerry - κατασκευής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slordig bou
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

jerry -build
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

jerry -build
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of jerry-build

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «JERRY-BUILD»

The term «jerry-build» is normally little used and occupies the 137.554 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «JERRY-BUILD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «jerry-build» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «jerry-build» 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 jerry-build

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JERRY-BUILD»

Discover the use of jerry-build in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to jerry-build and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Garner's Modern American Usage
In BrE, however, it is common to see a plural verb with jury <the jury have spoken >, just as with other collective nouns. jury-rig; jerry-build; ✳jerry-rig; ✳gerry-rig. The first is an authentic nautical phrase, dating from the early 17th century.
Bryan Garner, 2009
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English Pronouncing Dictionary
Jerram 'd3er.3m Jerrold 'd3er.3ld jerr|y (J) 'd3erl.i -ies -iz jerry ,can jerry-build ' d3er.i.bild -s -z -ing -in jerry-built 'd3er.i.bilt jerry-build- er/s 'd3er.i,bil.d3r/z ® - daVz jersey (J) 'd33:.zi © ^33^1- -s -z Jerusalem d33'ru:.s31.3m, d3i-, -lem Jerusalem ...
Daniel Jones, Peter Roach, James Hartman, 2006
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Proceedings of the FISITA 2012 World Automotive Congress: ...
Light weight is different from jerry-build. Here light certainly is not some auto factory action which is jerry—build for profit neglect consumer benefit. The right way is to strengthen the place where is needed and weaken the place where is ...
International Federation of Automobile Engineers' and Technicians' Associations. International Congress, SAE-China, 2012
4
Selling by Default
I realize that you guys went over this in the interview process, but I want to have Jerry build his future plans on the way he feels now.” Dirk is feeling fairly smug right now, not just for hiring someone that appears to be trainable, but also for ...
Randy L Hess, 2010
5
Skylar and Pap: Life Lessons Learned and Relearned
Drawing the connection, Skylar asked “Did Jerry build Nana and Papa's house too?” Perhaps some of her interest in construction comes from the Bob the Builder show or from wearing her hardhat around the house. I remember when I was ...
Ronald B. Schram, 2012
6
Marginalism and Discontinuity: Tools for the Crafts of ...
It is our unwarranted presumption that just because we have to jerry- build some conception means that it is unnatural. Rather, electrons just are this versatile way. Electrons, of a given mass and charge, are the means of both conductivity and ...
Martin H. Krieger, 1989
7
Gentle Reads: Great Books to Warm Hearts and Lift Spirits, ...
Grades 5–8 ACCELERATED READER READING COUNTS Jamie and his older cousin Jerry build a raft. Jamie's parents caution them about not taking it down the river with its wild current. Of course, the two don't listen and end up on the river ...
Deanna J. McDaniel, 2008
8
Oxford Thesaurus of English
1 knock something up 1 Brit. informal I could knock up someframes: make quickly , put together quickly, prepare hastily, build rapidly, whip up, rig up, jerry-build, throw together, cobble together, improvise, devise, contrive; make, prepare, ...
Maurice Waite, 2009
9
King Lear in our Time
... half-dead language andEuphuist English unintelligible and intolerable: allthese undeniable facts are reasons for not performing Shakespear«s playsatall ,butnot reasons for breaking them up and trying to jerry-build modern plays with them, ...
Maynard Mack, 2013
10
Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis: Integration and ...
that individualized social world, which makes it possible for babies to jerry-build an ever more complex social cognitive apparatus, which, in turn, makes possible ever more complex social experiences in an iterative process of social cognitive ...
Linda C. Mayes, Peter Fonagy, Mary Target, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JERRY-BUILD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term jerry-build is used in the context of the following news items.
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Column: Clarification raj
... basis', resulting in boards being forced to jerry-build their understanding from Standards of Auditing and tax transfer-pricing precedents. «Financial Express, Jul 15»
2
About 30% see Japan economy heading toward deterioration: poll
Change the rules so it's no longer legal to jerry-build property on the cheap. Legally enforce building to last, which is economically and ... «The Japan Times, Mar 15»
3
Geldof live on BBC Radio 1: 'F**k-up and gimme a pound'
First, he roped in Ultravox frontman Midge Ure to jerry-build a suitable vehicle - the workman-like 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - and then, in ... «Irish Independent, Nov 14»
4
EA, Oculus VR, others join non-profit organization representing …
I could jerry-build the same thing using a tablet if I felt the need to but I dont because its totally unnecessary unless you are a gamer desperately ... «GameSpot, Mar 14»
5
Jonathan Teplitzky's 'The Railway Man'
In the camp at Kanchanaburi, he helped other men jerry-build a radio from scrounged electrical parts. In the film, its use is relatively benign: it's only a receiver, ... «The Monthly, Nov 13»
6
John Pilger, Utopia
They jerry-build. Whole teams of construction workers are put up in hotels to build a couple of poorly erected houses. You said at one point that ... «Screen International, Nov 13»
7
A Pope for the Poor
They jerry-build electricity and water supplies to maintain themselves even as rivers of sewage run past the front of what they still call home. «TIME, Jul 13»
8
A community united
Zeitlin went to Louisiana in 2006 to make the 25-minute film, a look at hurricane survivors who jerry-build a vessel from storm debris to find ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 12»
9
A Grand Design for failure
Although cast out into the North Sea near Southend, the houseboat still looks small and powerful and the suggestion of jerry-build offset by ... «The Guardian, Feb 11»
10
Ed Piskor's graphic novel creates sensation among genre's fans
... John Draper, was sentenced to prison for teaching thousands of fellow computer hackers to jerry-build low-end devices that enabled them to ... «Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Jun 09»

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