Build vs Maintain - 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).
(obsolete) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.
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To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
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, title= To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.
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As verbs the difference between build and maintain
is that build is to form (something) by combining materials or parts while maintain is to support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.As a noun build
is (physique) The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body.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.maintain
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Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}
QPR 2-3 Man City, passage=Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.}}
Mining the Boreal North, passage=Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.}}
Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?, passage=She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. "It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is happening right outside their front door."}}