meaning of builds
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.
2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
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 ones constitution.
4. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
5. To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground ones self or ones hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.
6. Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.
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