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. Frank Marshall:

    David Fincher and Kathy built the [ pirate ] ship on the stage and when David Fincher and Kathy went to film the ship Steven [ Spielberg ] wanted the entire ship to be in the frame, but there had been a small error made in looking at the perspective so David Fincher and Kathy had to open the door of the stage and put the camera outside to get all of the ship inside the frame.

  2. Rachael Denhollander:

    But the foundations will only be as good as what is built upon it.

  3. Joe Biden:

    Donald Trump thinks Wall Street built America; ordinary middle class Americans built America, too many people in the middle class have seen the bottom fall out.

  4. Cheryl Norton:

    As a parent, you know you'd take a bullet for your kid, i don't want her to face what she's facing, but that's what she was built for. I'm so proud of her and all the health care workers out there. I wish I could give them all a hug.

  5. Seth Rogen:

    There are certain jokes that for sure have not aged well, but I think that's the nature of comedy, i think conceptually those movies are sound, and I think there's a reason they've lasted as far as people still watching and enjoying them today. Jokes are not things that necessarily are built to last.

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