built

[built]

(used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness

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Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship.

Adjective S.
(used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness; "the built liquid detergents"


imp. & p. p.
of Build

n.
Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship.

a.
Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.


Built

Built , n. Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. [Obs.] Dryden.

Built

Built, a. Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.
Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built.

Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship.

Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.

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Usage Examples

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

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