| build up | enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages; "build up your savings" | en |
| build up | bolster or strengthen; "We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports" | en |
| build up | change the use of and make available or usable; "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up" | en |
| build up | form or accumulate steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border" | en |
| build up | construct, build (something new); publicize, advertise, bring to the attention of the public, promote; intensify, strengthen, increase fiil | en |
| build up | prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U S is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqui border" | en |
| build up | bolster or strengthen; "We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports | en |
| build up | If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it. The regime built up the largest army in Africa Slowly a thick layer of fat builds up on the pan's surface | en |
| build up | The removal of old filling material and decay from a worn-out tooth and bonding with tooth-colored composite resin to create a solid foundation for a cap or crown | en |
| build up | If you build someone or something up, you make them seem important or exciting, for example by talking about them a lot. The media will report on it and the tabloids will build it up Historians built him up as the champion of parliament see also build 6, 8, build-up, built-up | en |
| build up | If you build someone up, you help them to feel stronger or more confident, especially when they have had a bad experience or have been ill. Build her up with kindness and a sympathetic ear | en |
| build up | Building by placing a card of a higher rank on to a card of one lower rank is permitted Example: Placing a Queen on a Jack is good, but placing a Queen on a King is not | en |
| build up | Building by placing a card of a higher rank on to a card of a lower rank is permitted Usually implies a difference of only one ranking between the two cards Example: Placing a Queen on a Jack is good, but placing a Queen on a King is not | en |
| build up to | If you build up to something you want to do or say, you try to prepare people for it by starting to do it or introducing the subject gradually. Other actions we need to take may be more difficult, and we may have to build up to them gradually | en |
| build-up | A heavy deposit of floor finish, wax, dirt and grime It is caused by adding layer after layer of floor finish over dirt without deep scrubbing the old layers away first These build-ups are frequently found along baseboards and corners | en |
| build-up | occurs after using an excessive amount of a hair product such as gel or a pomade, and there is a film on your hair Even after washing, the hair will look dull and lifeless Do a clarifying treatment to correct this problem | en |
| build-up | Glass bundles or chopper fuzz which collect on the chopper, cot, static bars or machine frame | en |
| build-up | A build-up is a gradual increase in something. There has been a build-up of troops on both sides of the border The disease can also cause a build up of pressure in the inner ear leading to severe earache | en |
| build-up | The build-up to an event is the way that journalists, advertisers, or other people talk about it a lot in the period of time immediately before it, and try to make it seem important and exciting. The exams came, almost an anti-climax after the build-up that the students had given them | en |
| build-up | gradual increase, increasing accumulation; act of building up an accumulation, accretion; promotion, advertising, publicity isim | en |
| buildup | the result of the process of accumulation; "the buildup of leaves blocked the drain pipes | en |
| buildup | accumulation | en |
| buildup | the act of building up an accumulation; "I envied his rapid buildup of assets"; "a military buildup in preparation for the invasion" | en |
| buildup | gradual increase (i.e. of military forces); development; accumulation; promotion, publicity (intended to increase the popularity of something) isim | en |
| buildup | highly favorable publicity and praise; "his letter of recommendation gave her a terrific buildup" | en |