Breakdown vs Build - What's the difference?
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A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed
A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability
Listing, division or categorization in great detail
(chemistry) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
A musical technique, by where the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, and can vary in heaviness depending on the genre.
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(sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
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(US, dated) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the blacks of the southern United States.
(US, dated) Any crude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
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(US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
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(lb) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
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, title= To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
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, title= (lb) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
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, title= (lb) To establish a basis for (something).
(lb) To form by combining materials or parts.
(lb) To develop in magnitude or extent.
(senseid) The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body.
(computing) any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users
(Internet slang) a structure, nominally an abbreviation of building (see usage notes below).
As nouns the difference between breakdown and build
is that breakdown is a failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed while build is (senseid) the physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body.As a verb build is
(lb) to form (something) by combining materials or parts.breakdown
English
Noun
(en noun)- We saw a breakdown by the side of the road.
- After so much stress, he suffered a breakdown and simply gave up.
- ''Looking at the breakdown of the budget, I see a few items we could cut.
- And now it's time for a breakdown !
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- Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with.
- Foggy Mountain 'Breakdown'
- Towards nine the three miners said that as they had brought their instruments they might as well tune up, for the boys and girls would soon be arriving now, and hungry for a good old fashioned breakdown . A fiddle, a banjo, and a clarinet - these were the instruments.
Synonyms
* (musical technique) degradationDerived terms
* breakdown lorry / breakdown truck * breakdown point * nervous breakdownSee also
* break it downbuild
English
Verb
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The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
Usage notes
* The simple past tense and past participle used to be builded; however, that form is now archaic, having been superseded by the form .Synonyms
* (to form by combining materials or parts) construct, erect * (to develop or give form to according to a plan or process) create * (to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to) build up, enlarge, increase, strengthen * (to establish a basis for) base, found, groundAntonyms
* (to form by combining materials or parts) demolish, destroy, ruin, wreck * (to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to) decrease, dissipate, weakenDerived terms
* build a fire under * build castles in the air * build in * build into * build on * build on sand * build-to * build up * build upon * prebuildNoun
(en noun)- Rugby players are of sturdy build .
- The computer company has introduced a new prototype build to beta testers.
- I made a build that looked like the Parthenon in that game.