building 
build·ing (-diŋ)
noun
- anything that is built with walls and a roof, as a house or factory; structure
- the act, process, work, or business of constructing houses, ships, etc.
building
n.
A structure
edifice, structure, construction, erection, fabrication, fabric, house, framework, superstructure, frame, architectural construction, pile, outbuilding; see also apartment house, architecture, barn, castle, church 1, factory, home 1, hotel, motel, palace, skyscraper, temple.The act of building
erection, raising, construction, fabricating; see construction 1.
building is the general term applied to a fixed structure in which people dwell, work, etc.; edifice implies a large or stately building and is sometimes used figuratively the edifice of democracy; structure may also suggest an imposing building, or may be used when the material of construction is being stressed a steel structure; pile is applied in poetry and lofty prose to a very large building or mass of buildings
Converse of object
- demolish: Notification of Demolition of Buildings ( PDF 9kb ) Use this form if applying to demolish a building.
- exist: This means being involved in the design, maintenance, alteration, repair and refurbishment of existing buildings.
- refurbish: The business also has expertise in converting or refurbishing existing buildings.
- convert: Oldfield Cottage is a traditional 17th century Shropshire cottage with guest accommodation in a tastefully converted stable building.
Adjective modifier
- listed: Flow gallery is located in the heart of London's Notting Hill, in a light filled listed building.
- historic: It is awarded for the best adaptive re-use of an historic building of any period.
- tall: Dart 34470 approaches Carfax corner last Saturday shaded from the spring sunshine by the ever present tall building in Oxford.
- existing: Its medieval origin seems well attested, but just how early the existing building might be is hard to say.
- old: A manor house near the north west corner of the green is the oldest building in the community.
- Victorian: The many fine Victorian buildings in Wolverhampton are testimony to the prosperity of the town in the 19th century.
Modifies a noun
- block: The building block of the new policy making structure is the policy forum.
- society: Tax credits are normally paid into a bank or building society account, or a Post Office card account.
- regulation: Wycombe District Council - FAQ Do I need building regulations approval for electrical work?
- consent: Planning permission and listed building consent have been granted.
Noun used with modifier
- capacity: Capacity building There has been progress with the joint planning partners in the 4 local authority areas.
- farm: Textile mills, churches, schools, hospitals, farm buildings, railroad stations or Ministry of Defense sites are just a few examples.
- brick: On the streets, there were surface shelters brick buildings with a thick roof of reinforced concrete.
- terminal: The taxi rank is along side the terminal building.
- landmark: The Lifeboat College is a unique and stunning landmark building of the highest quality.
- stone: There are 2 stone buildings dating from the Bronze Age.
They saya building isgood architecture if it works.Of course, this is poppycock. All buildings work You expect anyarchitect, a graduate of Harvard or not, to be able to put the kitchen in the right place.
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.
Eachschool can, onceagain, become what it was always meant to beöa building that has four walls with tomorrow inside.
Ifthereisanything moresatisfying thandedicating anew building, it is dedicating eight new buildings.
I know not how it wasöbut, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit There was aniciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heartöan unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.
O this is no myain house, I ken by the biggin o't.
My name is on the building.
Nuestro portero descubrio¤ , o creyo¤ descubrir, que su labor no se pod|¤a limitar a abrir la puerta del edificio, sino que e¤ l, el portero, era el sen alado, el elegido, el indicadopara mostrarles a todas aquellas personas una puerta ma¤ s amplia y hasta entonces invisible o inaccesible; puerta que era la de sus propias vidas. Our doorman discovered (or thought he had discovered) that his tasks could not be limited to just opening the door of the buildingöbut that he, the doorman, was the one chosen, elected, singled outto show everyone who lived there a wider door, until then either invisible or inaccessible: the door to their own lives.
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
'What is a church?'öOur honest sexton tells, ''Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.'
Don't clap too hardöit's a very old building.
The Victorians expected every building, like every painting, to tell a story, and preferably to point to a moral as well. 199
After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort.
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