Word Finder - building

definition

The act or process by which something is built; construction.

example

The building of the bridge will be completed in a couple of weeks.

synonyms

• construction

definition

A closed structure with walls and a roof.

example

My sister lives in that apartment building.

synonyms

• edifice

I left the building for home.

The three-story building looked big enough to cover a city block.

It was a pleasant escape from the dust and noise of the building going on above them.

She tried to distract the building panic.

What she needed to do was get a look inside the building and put her fears to rest.

Her plan was to approach the building from the back parking lot.

Getting into that building was getting more important all the time.

And suddenly Brother A. came and, taking my arm, led me to a building to enter which we had to pass along a narrow plank.

We are building the Internet to connect with each other better, to share information, to collaborate, to offer mutual support, and so on.

Maybe if he saw that she didn't go near the building, he would relax his guard.

Everywhere you turned, people were speculating about, or building models of, the "House of Tomorrow," the "Car of Tomorrow," or the "Workplace of Tomorrow."

They don't really worry about whether playing polo or building orphanages or any other chosen pursuit can pay the bills, because they don't need it to pay the bills.

As they approached the building, a large group of people came out whooping and yelling.

Outsourcing a job to get it done more cheaply or building a machine to do it more cheaply is really the same.

I went into the building today.

You remember how your condo building came down this morning an hour before you planned?

He recognized the building via a computer image Betsy provided.

But as I watch how we are building and using the Internet, the one-on-one encounters impress me most.

For working quarters we secured a thirty year old building, recently vacated, on the beautiful main street of Keene.

The house was a two-story building with a wide wraparound porch.

Dusty, can I go to watch the building explode?

Coldness, then the sound of the storm beating the building around him.

Jule and Dustin reached the building, and she looked at them.

The rocking chairs were back, four in a row, red, green, yellow, and purple, adding a blaze of color against the century-old white building of Bird Song.

The chief object of interest is the church of Sainte-Anne (once the cathedral), the building of which was begun about the year 1056 on the site of a much older edifice, but not completed until the latter half of the 17th century.

Helen Keller writing "The Frost King" was building better than she knew and saying more than she meant.

At the end of the week the prince reappeared and resumed his former way of life, devoting himself with special activity to building operations and the arrangement of the gardens and completely breaking off his relations with Mademoiselle Bourienne.

At the edge of town the sound of hammers announced the building of another hotel.

A red brick municipal building stood at the far end of the street ahead of us.

He led her through the apartment building to an underground garage and to a sleek, black sports car with black interior.

The building swayed gently in the strong winds whipping through southern Florida, and water pelted the windows across from her.

Kiera asked, trying hard to control the anger building within her.

She gazed at him in the moons' light, tears building again.

There was nothing more to learn and Burgess excused himself and entered the building.

There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest.

No one was in sight when she reached the building, but the door was open.

I then left the building and waited outside for the others who arrived moments later.

He knows I won't take the building down with all the humans.

They wandered the hallways on the main floor until finding one that led to a side door of the large, stone building.

The space underneath the roof, where they stood, permitted them to see on all sides of the tall building, and they looked with much curiosity at the city spread out beneath them.

This mollified Jim a little, and after some thought the green maiden decided to give the cab-horse a room in the palace, such a big building having many rooms that were seldom in use.

Dr. Bell went with us himself to the electrical building, and showed us some of the historical telephones.

They rounded the corner of the building to see a group of men lounging against the fence, watching a display that made Carmen's blood run cold.

Pushing through some sumac that she thought bordered the clearing where the building stood, she squinted up at the sun.

She added, Most old pictures and records went up in smoke when the old building burned.

I pulled up in front and was inside the building as fast as I could move.

He rigged the building but didn't blow it.

He gobbled everything he could grab as if building energy for the balance of his coast-to-coast trek.

The whole top of the building --where the hostel was housed --was on fire.

We don't know what Bird Song was at the turn of the century, just that there was a building or some sort on this site.