Building vs Institution - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The act or process of building.
A closed structure with walls and a roof.
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An established organisation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, culture or the care of the destitute, poor etc.
The building which houses such an organisation.
A custom or practice of a society or community, marriage for example.
(informal) A person long established with a certain place or position.
The act of instituting.
(obsolete) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook or system of elements or rules.
As nouns the difference between building and institution
is that building is the act or process of building while institution is an established organisation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, culture or the care of the destitute, poor etc.As a verb building
is present participle of lang=en.building
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
Synonyms
* (act or process of building) construction * (closed structure with walls and a roof) edifice * See alsoDerived terms
* apartment building * * building blocks * building permit * building society * building trade * office building * outbuilding * shipbuilding * bodybuilding * main buildingSee also
* (wikipedia)Etymology 2
See (build)Verb
(head)institution
English
Noun
(wikipedia institution) (en noun)- There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, being an institution of physic. — Evelyn.