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BUILT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness
Example:
the built liquid detergents
Synonyms:
built; reinforced
Classified under:
Similar:
improved (made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb build
Context examples:
Both have been ever since the houses were built.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had three hundred cooks to dress my victuals, in little convenient huts built about my house, where they and their families lived, and prepared me two dishes a-piece.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It was rather small, but well built and convenient; and everything was fitted up and arranged with a neatness and consistency of which Elizabeth gave Charlotte all the credit.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Using the results from lab-based experiments, Davies Wykes and her colleagues built mathematical models to predict how temperature difference between inside and outside affects how well a room is ventilated.
(Wind more effective than cold air at cooling rooms naturally, University of Cambridge)
To do so, he built on his experience working with radar images on NASA's Magellan Venus orbiter and from a previous regional geologic map of Titan that he developed.
(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)
The Kerry Blue Terrier is a well-built, muscular, medium-sized dog with true terrier style and character.
(Kerry Blue Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)
Nanowires are built atom by atom on a solid surface, often as part of a microfluidic device.
(Nanowire, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) Aids or devices that you usually use for any of these activities - Special or built up chair.
(HAQ-DI - Aids or Devices - Special or Built Up Chair, NCI Thesaurus)
The Greyhound is a sleek, contoured dog built for speed with a very deep chest and a flexible, curved spine.
(Greyhound, NCI Thesaurus)
A naturally produced angular solid of definite form in which the ultimate units from which it is built up are systematically arranged; they are usually evenly spaced on a regular space lattice.
(Crystal Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
