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PRONUNCIATION OF PURPOSE-BUILT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PURPOSE-BUILT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Purpose-Built is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PURPOSE-BUILT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of purpose-built in the English dictionary

The definition of purpose-built in the dictionary is made to serve a specific purpose.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PURPOSE-BUILT

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purple-fringed orchis
purpleness
purplish
purply
purport
purported
purportedly
purportless
purpose
purposeful
purposefully
purposefulness
purposeless
purposelessly
purposelessness
purposely
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purposively
purposiveness

WORDS THAT END LIKE PURPOSE-BUILT

brick-built
built
carvel-built
clincher-built
clinker-built
coach-built
custom-built
guilt
heavily built
home-built
in-built
jerry-built
overbuilt
powerfully built
rebuilt
scratchbuilt
self-built
square-built
system built
upbuilt
well-built

Synonyms and antonyms of purpose-built in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «purpose-built» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PURPOSE-BUILT

Find out the translation of purpose-built to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of purpose-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 «purpose-built» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

专用
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

especialmente diseñada
570 millions of speakers

English

purpose-built
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उद्देश्य से बनाया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بنيت لهذا الغرض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

специально построенном
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

construído para o efeito
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিশেষভাবে নির্মিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

construite à cet effet
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dibina dengan tujuan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

speziell gebaut
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

専用の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

목적을 위해 세워지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tujuane dibangun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mục đích xây dựng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நோக்கத்திற்காகவே கட்டப்பட்டது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेतू बिल्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

amaca
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

costruito appositamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Celem wbudowany
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спеціально побудованому
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

scop-construit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκοπός κατασκευής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

doel-gebou
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

specialbyggda
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spesialbygde
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of purpose-built

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PURPOSE-BUILT»

The term «purpose-built» is quite widely used and occupies the 37.005 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PURPOSE-BUILT» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PURPOSE-BUILT»

Discover the use of purpose-built in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to purpose-built and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Avce Travel and Tourism Advanced
Purpose-built resorts originated in northern Europe where the unreliable weather meant tourists would not necessarily visit destinations all year round or, indeed, even during the summer months if the weather was poor. The idea is that these ...
Janet Rodgers, 2001
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GCE AS Travel and Tourism Double Award for Edexcel
Purpose-built tourist destinations are specifically built to meet the needs of tourists. These are destinations developed specifically for tourists to provide all the facilities needed in one place. The destinations can provide a range of services, ...
Alan Marvell, 2006
3
Travel & Tourism: AS Level for OCR : GCE AS Level Double Award
Also, attractions are not necessarily purpose-built or human-made places. They might be areas that occur naturally, such as rivers, coasts, forests and hills. Theory into practice As a group, think of examples of tourist attractions in your local ...
Alan Marvell, 2005
4
GCE AS Travel and Tourism Single Award for Edexcel
Purpose-built tourist destinations are specifically built to meet the needs of tourists. These are destinations developed specifically for tourists to provide all the facilities needed in one place. The destinations can provide a range of services, ...
Alan Marvell, 2005
5
Aging Independently: Living Arrangements and Mobility
Purpose-Built Housing and Home Adaptations for Older Adults: The American Perspective Victor Regnier The history of purpose-built housing for elders in the United States stretches back about 50 years. Although early buildings constructed ...
Klaus Warner Schaie, 2003
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Contemporary Ergonomics
In the second analysis comparing two-lane and purpose built passing lane overtaking frequency of overtaking was pro-rated on the conservative basis of assuming one km of purpose built passing lane to 10 km of ordinary passing lane  ...
S. Robertson, 1997
7
Network World
At the dawn of the internetwork age, general-purpose PCs and purpose-built network gear provided the first rudimentary inter-LAN bridging. By the time the internetwork market flourished in the mid-1990s, though, the bridge/router built on a ...
8
A Practical Approach to Landlord and Tenant
The somewhat tortuous wording of this section is designed to deal with the practical difficulties raised by purpose-built blocks of flats. A purpose-built block of flats is one building, but each flat within that building is an independent unit. The aim ...
Simon Garner, Alexandra Frith, 2010
9
Polymers in Concrete
This apparatus consists of two devices, i.e., a purpose-built noncontact-type displacement device and a purpose-built load measuring device. It features the capability of simultaneously measuring a displacement and a load during setting by ...
Y. Ohama, 1997
10
User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: 19th ...
Mike Shapiro describes “purpose-built” as languages that “even defy a strict definition worthy of a prescriptive compiler grammarian...” but still play a key role as part of the development of larger software systems. He observes further that these ...
Joseph Konstan, Ricardo Conejo, Jose L. Marzo, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PURPOSE-BUILT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term purpose-built is used in the context of the following news items.
1
A purpose-built car for wheelchair users
David Keith, 68 has been the talk of 10th Avenue South ever since he bought a unique, purpose-built car for wheelchair users. Keith said he talks to 50 people a ... «Great Falls Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Connected cars: Hacks, crashes and purpose-built cities
It's been a busy few days in the world of connected cars on many fronts. There's been a live-hack, the crash of an autonomous car resulting in injuries and the ... «RCR Wireless News, Jul 15»
3
T5 and Lincoln to Develop “Purpose-Built” Data Center on Cabana …
Lincoln and Atlanta-based T5 worked out a deal to acquire the building, and they're now preparing to develop the first “purpose-built” urban data center in Texas ... «D Magazine, Jul 15»
4
Google purpose-built robot cars tested on public roads
Google's purpose-built robots cars are getting the green light to drive on public roads. This summer some of the self-driving cars will be tested on the roads ... «BBC News, May 15»
5
Four RC cars go tandem drifting at night on purpose-built track [video]
Four RC cars go tandem drifting at night on purpose-built track [video]. Falken Tire: Ultimate Dark Night RC Drifting. Features 1:10 scale RC cars. Falken Tire has ... «WorldCarFans.com, May 15»
6
Brocade Storage Fabrics Purpose-Built for New EMC XtremIO 4.0 All …
Brocade BRCD, -1.33% today announced its Fibre Channel and IP-based storage networking technologies will be deployed by EMC as a key component for ... «MarketWatch, May 15»
7
Governments Deploy Purpose-Built Backup Appliances
After researching options, the city IT department chose Symantec's NetBackup purpose-built backup appliance, and the team deployed it in late 2013. «StateTech Magazine, Apr 15»
8
The Appeal of a Close Purpose-Built Student Housing Community
The average purpose-built student housing in this market is about two miles from campus, and the overwhelming majority of it is south of the Tennessee River, ... «Multi-Housing News, Mar 15»
9
First Purpose-Built UH-72A Training Helicopter on Its Way to Fort …
Ultimately, 187 UH-72s are planned to be stationed at Fort Rucker for training, comprising 106 purpose-built trainers and 81 already-existing Lakotas that have ... «National Defense Magazine, Mar 15»
10
Worldwide Purpose-Built Backup Appliance (PBBA) Market …
BUSINESS WIRE)--Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues grew 3.0% year over year totaling $1.0 billion in the fourth quarter of ... «Business Wire, Mar 15»

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