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building definition

build·ing (-diŋ)

noun

  1. anything that is built with walls and a roof, as a house or factory; structure
  2. the act, process, work, or business of constructing houses, ships, etc.

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building Synonyms

building

n.

  1. 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.

  2. 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


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building Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • demolish: Notification of Demolition of Buildings ( PDF 9kb ) Use this form if applying to demolish a building.

Adjective modifier

  • listed: Flow gallery is located in the heart of London's Notting Hill, in a light filled listed building.

Modifies a noun

  • block: The building block of the new policy making structure is the policy forum.

Noun used with modifier

  • capacity: Capacity building There has been progress with the joint planning partners in the 4 local authority areas.
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Eachschool can, onceagain, become what it was always meant to beöa building that has four walls with tomorrow inside.

-Akers,John Fellows

O this is no myain house, I ken by the biggin o't.

-Anonymous

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 indicado†para 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 out†to show everyone who lived there a wider door, until then either invisible or inaccessible: the door to their own lives.

-Arenas, Reinaldo

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