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building (root: build)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun building has 4 senses
- building(n = noun.artifact) edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" has particulars: abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse, apartment building, apartment house, architecture, aviary, bird sanctuary, volary, bathhouse, bathing machine, bowling alley, center, centre, chapterhouse, club, clubhouse, dorm, dormitory, hall, residence hall, student residence, farm building, feedlot, firetrap, gambling den, gambling hell, gambling house, gaming house, gazebo, summerhouse, government building, glasshouse, greenhouse, nursery, hall, hall, hall of fame, hotel, casino-hotel, hotel-casino, house, house, library, health facility, healthcare facility, medical building, ministry, dead room, morgue, mortuary, observatory, office block, office building, opium den, outbuilding, packinghouse, house of god, house of prayer, house of worship, place of worship, planetarium, presbytery, eatery, eating house, eating place, restaurant, rest house, rink, skating rink, roman building, rotunda, ruin, school, schoolhouse, shooting gallery, signal box, signal tower, skyscraper, student union, tap house, tavern, telco building, telecom hotel, temple, house, theater, theatre, bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse, independence hall, houses of parliament
- building(n = noun.act) construction - the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats" is a kind of creating from raw materials
- building(n = noun.act) construction - the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades" has parts: masonry, house painting, painting, plumbery, plumbing, roofing, sheet-metal work, shingling
- building(n = noun.group) Array - the occupants of a building; "the entire building complained about the noise" is a kind of assemblage, gathering
has parts: annex, annexe, extension, wing, antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby, vestibule, corner, quoin, corner, nook, cornerstone, cornerstone, court, courtyard, cullis, elevator, lift, exterior door, outside door, floor, level, storey, story, foundation stone, heat, heating, heating plant, heating system, interior door, roof, room, scantling, stud, shaft, frame, skeletal frame, skeleton, underframe, staircase, stairway, upstairs, wall, window, crawl space, crawlspace
is a kind of construction, structure
has particulars: crenelation, crenellation, erecting, erection, house-raising, assembly, fabrication, dry walling, grading, leveling, road construction, ship building, shipbuilding, rustication
Derived form verb build1
is a kind of business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise
has particulars: jerry-building
Derived forms verb build7, verb build5
CIDE DICTIONARY
building, n.
- The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. [1913 Webster]"Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster." [1913 Webster]
- The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture. [1913 Webster]"The execution of works of architecture necessarily includes building; but building is frequently employed when the result is not architectural." [1913 Webster]
- That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc. [1913 Webster]"Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire
Have cost a mass of public treasury." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
building, n.
1 a permanent fixed structure forming an enclosure and providing protection from the elements etc. (e.g. a house, school, factory, or stable).
2 the constructing of such structures.
1 a permanent fixed structure forming an enclosure and providing protection from the elements etc. (e.g. a house, school, factory, or stable).
2 the constructing of such structures.
Idiom
building line a limit or boundary between a house and a street beyond which the owner may not build. building site an area before or during the construction of a house etc. building society Brit. a public finance company which accepts investments at interest and lends capital for mortgages on houses etc.
THESAURUS
building
Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, assemblage, assembly, build, buildup, casa, casting, cliff dwelling, combination, composition, compound, conformation, constitution, construct, construction, consulate, conversion, country house, country seat, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, dacha, deanery, devising, dwelling house, edifice, elaboration, embassy, embodiment, erection, establishment, extraction, fabric, fabrication, farm, farmhouse, fashion, fashioning, forging, form, format, formation, forming, formulation, frame, framing, getup, growing, hall, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, house, houseboat, hut, incorporation, junction, lake dwelling, living machine, lodge, machining, make, makeup, making, manor house, manse, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, mixture, mold, molding, organic structure, organism, organization, packaged house, parsonage, pattern, patterning, penthouse, physique, piecing together, pile, plan, prefab, prefabricated house, prefabrication, preparation, presidential palace, processing, producing, production, putting together, pyramid, raising, ranch house, rectory, refining, roof, setup, shape, shaping, skyscraper, smelting, sod house, split-level, structure, structuring, superstructure, syneresis, synthesis, tectonics, texture, tissue, tower, town house, vicarage, warp and woof, weave, web, workmanshipROGET THESAURUS
building
Production
N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet, production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.Abode
N abode, dwelling, lodging, domicile, residence, apartment, place, digs, pad, address, habitation, where one's lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat, lap, sojourn, housing, quarters, headquarters, resiance, tabernacle, throne, ark, home, fatherland, country, homestead, homestall, fireside, hearth, hearth stone, chimney corner, inglenook, ingle side, harem, seraglio, zenana, household gods, lares et penates, roof, household, housing, dulce domum, paternal domicile, native soil, native land, habitat, range, stamping ground, haunt, hangout, biosphere, environment, ecological niche, nest, nidus, snuggery, arbor, bower, lair, den, cave, hole, hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum, aerie, eyrie, eyry, rookery, hive, covert, resort, retreat, perch, roost, nidification, kala jagah, bivouac, camp, encampment, cantonment, castrametation, barrack, casemate, casern, tent, building, chamber, xenodochium, tenement, messuage, farm, farmhouse, grange, hacienda, toft, cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam, pen, barn, bawn, kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre, cow house, cow shed, stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium, shippen, igloo, iglu, jacal, lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling, log cabin, log house, shack, shebang, tepee, topek, house, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace, kiosk, bungalow, casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house, temple, hamlet, village, thorp, dorp, ham, kraal, borough, burgh, town, city, capital, metropolis, suburb, province, country, county town, county seat, courthouse, ghetto, street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda, board walk, embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd, close, yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews, square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade, peristyle, cloister, gardens, grove, residences, block of buildings, market place, place, plaza, anchorage, roadstead, roads, dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor, quarter, parish, assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place, inn, hostel, hostelry, hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice, public house, pub, pot house, mug house, gin mill, gin palace, bar, bar room, barrel house, cabaret, chophouse, club, clubhouse, cookshop, dive, exchange, grill room, saloon, shebeen, coffee house, eating house, canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada, almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse, garden, park, pleasure ground, plaisance, demesne, cage, terrarium, doghouse, pen, aviary, barn, stall, zoo, urban, metropolitan, suburban, provincial, rural, rustic, domestic, cosmopolitan, palatial, eigner Hert ist goldes Werth, even cities have their graves, ubi libertas ibi patria, home sweet home.
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