built 
built (bilt)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
adjective
Informal having a well-formed, physically attractive body: said usually of a woman
built
modif.
Erected
constructed, fabricated, manufactured, made, put together, produced, assembled, set up, contrived, reared, raised, remodeled, completed, joined, perfected, finished, realized, established, created, formed, cast, forged, framed; see also formed.*Buxom
well-proportioned, shapely, stacked*; see buxom 2.
The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built for ever.
Nous avons ba" ti sur le sable Des cathe¤ drales impe¤ rissables. We have built immovable cathedrals In the sand.
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay That was built in such a logical way, It ran a hundred years to a day.
Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble, nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold; Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told, Or stair, or courts; but standst an ancient pile, And these grudged at, art reverenced the while.
It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It isnotthestreetsthatexist.It isthestreetsthat no longer exist. It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down. It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget. What you must go on forgetting all your life.
Don't wait for schools to be built. Teach the children under the nearest tree.
Browse dictionary entries near built
- ‹ buildup
- ‹ building and loan association
- ‹ building
- ‹ builder's knot
- ‹ builder
- ‹ build up
- ‹ build on
- ‹ build in
- ‹ build-down
- ‹ build
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