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- v make by combining materials and parts
- v form or accumulate steadily
Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly - v build or establish something abstract
- v improve the cleansing action of
- v order, supervise, or finance the construction of
- v give form to, according to a plan
- v be engaged in building
- v found or ground
- v bolster or strengthen
- v develop and grow
- s (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness
the built liquid detergents
- Page, who as a student built an ink-jet printer out of Lego bricks, is snapping pieces together to make a kind of endlessly ascending staircase; Brin is working on a robot.
- This year he's back for the startling achievement of having built the first synthetic genome.
- In ninth grade, he built an amplifier that won third place in a national electronics competition.