'Built' definitions:
Definition of 'built'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness; "the built liquid detergents" [syn: built, reinforced]
Definition of 'Built'
From: GCIDE
- Built \Built\ (b[i^]lt), n. Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Built'
From: GCIDE
- Built \Built\, a. Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Built'
From: GCIDE
- Build \Build\ (b[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Built (b[i^]lt); p. pr. & vb. n. Building. The regular imp. & p. p. Builded is antiquated.] [OE. bulden, bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. b[=o]l farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, b["o]le, house, dwelling, fr. root of Icel. b[=u]a to dwell; akin to E. be, bower, boor. [root]97.]
- 1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise. [1913 Webster]
- Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means. [1913 Webster]
- Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution. [1913 Webster]
- I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up. --Acts xx. 32. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To erect; construct; raise; found; frame. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'built'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agreeable,
- amply endowed,
- assembled,
- becoming,
- bonny,
- braw,
- built for comfort,
- buxom,
- callipygian,
- callipygous,
- cast,
- comely,
- constructed,
- crafted,
- created,
- curvaceous,
- curvesome,
- curvilinear,
- curvy,
- custom,
- custom-built,
- custom-made,
- extracted,
- fabricated,
- fair,
- fashioned,
- forged,
- formed,
- gathered,
- goddess-like,
- good-looking,
- goodly,
- grown,
- handcrafted,
- handmade,
- harvested,
- homemade,
- homespun,
- Junoesque,
- likely,
- lovely to behold,
- machine-made,
- machined,
- made,
- made to order,
- man-made,
- manufactured,
- milled,
- mined,
- molded,
- personable,
- pleasing,
- pneumatic,
- prefab,
- prefabricated,
- presentable,
- processed,
- put together,
- raised,
- ready-for-wear,
- ready-formed,
- ready-made,
- ready-prepared,
- ready-to-wear,
- refined,
- rounded,
- shaped,
- shapely,
- sightly,
- slender,
- smelted,
- stacked,
- statuesque,
- well-built,
- well-constructed,
- well-developed,
- well-favored,
- well-formed,
- well-made,
- well-proportioned,
- well-shaped,
- well-stacked
Words containing 'Built'
- Diagonal built,
- air built,
- built in bed,
- built reinforced,
- built-in,
- built-up,
- jerry built,
- Clincher-built,
- Clinker-built,
- Clipper-built,
- Cloud-built,
- Frigate-built,
- High-built,
- Ice-built,
- Jerry-built,
- Sea-built,
- built-in bed,
- built-up guns,
- carvel-built,
- custom-built,
- purpose-built,
- square-built,
- well-built,
- bicycle-built-for-two,
- built-soap powder