build

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To form by combining materials or parts; construct.
• intransitive verb To order, finance, or supervise the construction of.
• intransitive verb To develop or give form to according to a plan or process; create.
• intransitive verb To increase or strengthen by adding gradually to.
• intransitive verb To establish a basis for; found or ground.
• intransitive verb To make something by combining materials or parts.
• intransitive verb To engage in the construction or design of buildings.
• intransitive verb To develop in magnitude or extent.
• intransitive verb To progress toward a maximum, as of intensity.
• noun The physical makeup of a person or thing, especially one's physique.
• noun Computers Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
• idiom (build on sand) To provide with an unstable foundation.

from The Century Dictionary.

• In casino, to combine certain cards so that their total pip-value equals that of a single card in the player's hand.
• noun Manner of construction; make; form: as, the build of a ship.
• To frame or construct, as an edifice; form by uniting materials into a regular structure; erect.
• Figuratively— To form by art in any way; construct.
• To raise as on a support or foundation; rear.
• To establish, increase, and strengthen: generally with up: as, to build up a fine business; to build up a character.
• To exercise the art or practise the business of building; construct.
• Figuratively, to rear, erect, or construct anything, as a plan or a system of thought.
• To rest or depend, as on a foundation; base; rely: with on or upon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
• transitive verb To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
• transitive verb To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up.
• intransitive verb To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
• intransitive verb To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely.
• noun Form or mode of construction; general figure; make.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive to form (something) by combining materials or parts
• verb transitive to develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process
• verb transitive to increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to
• verb transitive to establish a basis for (something)
• verb intransitive to form by combining materials or parts
• verb intransitive to develop in magnitude or extent
• noun The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body.
• noun computing any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users
• noun Internet slang a structure, nominally an abbreviation of building (see usage notes below).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb order, supervise, or finance the construction of
• noun constitution of the human body
• verb give form to, according to a plan
• verb develop and grow
• verb improve the cleansing action of
• verb found or ground