Build vs Erection - What's the difference?
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(lb) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
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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).
(uncountable) The act of building]] or putting up or together of something; construction. [[File:Marquee,_Throope_Manor_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1491075.jpg, thumb, Erection of a large tent
(countable) Anything erected or built.
(uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
* 1997 , Alan Hyde, Bodies of Law , Princeton University Press (1997), ISBN 9781400822317,
* 2006 , Lori Marso, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women , Routledge (2006), ISBN 0415979269,
* 2007 , Edward J. Behrend-Martinez, Unfit for Marriage: Impotent Spouses on Trial in the Basque Region of Spain, 1650-1750 , University of Nevada Press (2007), ISBN 9780874176995,
(uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
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* 2008 , Robert Crooks & Karla Baur, Our Sexuality , Thomson Wadsworth (2008), ISBN 9780495095545,
* 2011 , Alan L. Rubin, Diabetes for Dummies , Wiley Publishing, Inc. (2008), ISBN 9780470270868,
(countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.
* 2002 , Marguerite Crump, No B.O.!: The Head-to-Toe Book of Hygiene for Preteens , Free Spirit Publishing (2005), ISBN 9781575427003,
* 2006 , Abha Dawesar, That Summer in Paris , Anchor Books (2007), ISBN 9780307275455,
* 2007 , Ken Follett, World Without End , Dutton (2007), ISBN 9780525950073,
As nouns the difference between build and erection
is that build is (physique) The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body while erection is the act of building or putting up or together of something; construction.As a verb build
is to form (something) by combining materials or parts.build
English
Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you
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.
Usage notes
* As internet slang, although the word is nominally an abbreviation of "building", the slang term can refer to any structure or formation created by the player e.g. a statue, a pool, or even a forest.erection
English
(wikipedia erection)Noun
- The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection .
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- I think that the case also demonstrates some singular aspects of the penis as a narrator of tales, specifically the way in which the erection of a penis falls outside a man's conscious control and therefore threatens a carefully constructed master legal narrative in which bodily self-control graphically represents the self-government contemplated by a democratic legal society.
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- There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency,
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- A marriage was only consummated via erection , penetration, and insemination intra vas .
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- Older men typically require longer periods of time to achieve erection and reach orgasm.
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- A very rare complication is priapism , where the penis maintains its erection for many hours.
- He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection .
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- The surge of hormones during puberty means you might have lots of erections , even when you don't want them—like during school.
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- Prem was sure everyone could see his erection through his pants, everyone but Maya, who he had been careful to keep to his side all the time
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- He kissed her again, this time with a long, moist kiss that gave him an erection .