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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Build \Build\ (b[i^]ld), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Built} (b[i^]lt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Building}. The regular imp. & p. p. {Builded} is antiquated.] [OE. bulden, bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. b[=o]l farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, b["o]le, house, dwelling, fr. root of Icel. b[=u]a to dwell; akin to E. be, bower, boor. [root]97.]
1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers. --Milton.
2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks. --Shak.
3. To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.
I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up. --Acts xx. 32.
Syn: To erect; construct; raise; found; frame.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Building \Build"ing\, noun
1. The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.
Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. --Bp. Hall.
2. The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.
The execution of works of architecture necessarily includes building; but building is frequently employed when the result is not architectural. --Hosking.
3. That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.
Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire Have cost a mass of public treasury. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
building
noun
1: 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" [syn: {edifice}]
2: the act of constructing or building something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats" [syn: {construction}]
3: the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades" [syn: {construction}]
4: the occupants of a building; "the entire building complained about the noise"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, workmanship
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Building among the Jews was suited to the climate and conditions of the country. They probably adopted the kind of architecture for their dwellings which they found already existing when they entered Canaan (Deut. 6:10; Num. 13:19). Phoenician artists (2 Sam. 5:11; 1 Kings 5:6, 18) assisted at the erection of the royal palace and the temple at Jerusalem. Foreigners also assisted at the restoration of the temple after the Exile (Ezra 3:7). In Gen. 11:3, 9, we have the first recorded instance of the erection of buildings. The cities of the plain of Shinar were founded by the descendants of Shem (10:11, 12, 22). The Israelites were by occupation shepherds and dwellers in tents (Gen. 47:3); but from the time of their entering Canaan they became dwellers in towns, and in houses built of the native limestone of Palestine. Much building was carried on in Solomon's time. Besides the buildings he completed at Jerusalem, he also built Baalath and Tadmor (1 Kings 9:15, 24). Many of the kings of Israel and Judah were engaged in erecting various buildings. Herod and his sons and successors restored the temple, and built fortifications and other structures of great magnificence in Jerusalem (Luke 21:5). The instruments used in building are mentioned as the plumb-line (Amos 7:7), the measuring-reed (Ezek. 40:3), and the saw (1 Kings 7:9). Believers are "God's building" (1 Cor. 3:9); and heaven is called "a building of God" (2 Cor. 5:1). Christ is the only foundation of his church (1 Cor. 3:10-12), of which he also is the builder (Matt. 16:18).
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