What does built mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. built, reinforcedadjective

    (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness

    "the built liquid detergents"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Builtnoun

    The form; the structure.

    Etymology: from build.

    As is the built, so different is the fight;
    Their mounting shot is on our sails design’d;
    Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light,
    And through the yielding planks a passage find. Dryden.

    There is hardly any country, which has so little shipping as Ireland; the reason must be, the scarcity of timber proper for this built. William Temple.

ChatGPT

  1. built

    Built can refer to the past tense of the verb "build," which means to construct, create or assemble something by combining materials or elements. It can also be used as an adjective to describe something that has been constructed or made, such as a built-in shelf or a built environment.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Built

    of Build

  2. Builtnoun

    shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship

  3. Builtadjective

    formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. built

    A prefix to denote the construction of a vessel, as carvel or clinker-built, bluff-built, frigate-built, sharp-built, &c.; English, French, or American built, &c.

Editors Contribution

  1. built

    Constructed or formed.

    The house was built with beautiful materials that caused it to look like it sits perfectly within the hillside.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 22, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'built' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #776

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'built' in Written Corpus Frequency: #942

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of built in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of built in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of built in a Sentence

  1. Christen Kuikoua:

    A handshake built on trust lasts longer than a contract bound by fear.

  2. Vicki Gaubeca:

    There are other technologies that they're already using that we feel like they should cut back on, and yet they're adding on another type of surveillance technology that's frightening, to be honest, this certainly seems like it's something that's built for something very aggressive, like the theaters of war, rather than in a community.

  3. Donald Trump:

    If Illegal Immigrants are unhappy with the conditions in the quickly built or refitted detentions centers, just tell them not to come. All problems solved!

  4. William Shedd:

    A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

  5. Geoff Porter:

    This is the system that he built, as long as he is in power he's going to keep it that way, the risks that come with market reform and privatization are too daunting for Algeria right now.

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