building

意味: 建物

例文: June mistook the bouncy castle for a building.
　　  ジューンはふわふわ城を本物の建物と間違えた。

定義: 屋根と壁があり、1つの場所にほぼ永久的に立っている構造物

コロケーション:

buildingは5,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
Noun: the act of constructing something
Noun: the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
Noun: the occupants of a building
Verb: make by combining materials and parts
Verb: form or accumulate steadily
Verb: build or establish something abstract
Verb: improve the cleansing action of
Verb: order, supervise, or finance the construction of
Verb: give form to, according to a plan
Verb: be engaged in building
Verb: found or ground
Verb: bolster or strengthen
Verb: develop and grow

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

Noun: there was a three-story building on the corner
Noun: it was an imposing edifice
Noun: during the construction we had to take a detour
Noun: his hobby was the building of boats
Noun: their main business is home construction
Noun: workers in the building trades
Noun: the entire building complained about the noise
Verb: this little pig made his house out of straw
Verb: Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer
Verb: Resistance to the manager’s plan built up quickly
Verb: Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border
Verb: build a reputation
Verb: build detergents
Verb: The government is building new schools in this state
Verb: build a modern nation
Verb: build a million-dollar business
Verb: These architects build in interesting and new styles
Verb: build a defense on nothing but the accused person’s reputation
Verb: We worked up courage
Verb: build up confidence
Verb: ramp up security in the airports
Verb: Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): build, build up, building, construct, construction, edifice, establish, make, progress, ramp up, work up

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): better, commercial enterprise, create, creating from raw materials, develop, establish, gathering, increase, intensify, make, oversee, structure

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, adolesce, advance, advertising, age, agribusiness, airdock, altar, arcade, arch, area, arouse, assemble, assembly, audience, augment, baking, balance, balcony, bascule, bear, beat, beget, bevy, blast, bloom, blossom, blow up, boarding, body, boost, bridge, bring, bud, build, build up, building, building complex, butchery, camp, carload, cast, catchment, cause, chop, choreograph, class, clear, cleave, coil, colonnade, column, commune, community, compose, condense, condition, confection, construct, construction, contingent, convocation, copy, corner, cortege, covey, create, create by mental act, create from raw material, create verbally, cross, crowd, cut, deathtrap, dedifferentiate, defensive structure, derive, differentiate, direct, discount business, distill, door, draw, educate, emend, employee-owned enterprise, enhance, enlarge, enrich, entablature, erection, erupt, escalate, establish, establishment, evolve, extend, fabrication, fair, false bottom, fancify, field, film, film-make, finance, fishing, floor, form, fountain, froth, fructify, generate, give, grind, grow, guide, heighten, help, honeycomb, house of cards, housing, hull, incorporate, incubate, industry, inflate, institute, iron out, jungle gym, kite, lamination, landing, lay down, lengthen, lookout, manufacture, masonry, mature, maximize, meeting, memorial, molding, mound, multiply, multitude, municipality, muster, obstruction, octet, offset, originate, packaging, paint, pair, partition, perfect, platform, polish, porch, post and lintel, prefab, prepare, press, printing, produce, progress, projection, public works, publication, puncture, purify, put on, quartet, quintet, quorum, raise, rally, rap group, rave-up, re-create, real-estate business, realize, recording, recreate, redouble, reform, regenerate, relieve, repair, reproduce, rev up, room, sail, scrape, senesce, septet, set-back, sextet, sharpen, shelter, shoebox, short-circuit, signboard, social gathering, spike, stadium, storage, strike, style, superstructure, supporting structure, table, tourism, tower, track, transept, transportation, trestlework, trio, turn around, turnout, twine, up, upgrade, vaulting, venture, ways, wellhead, widen, wind tunnel, wine tasting

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): abattoir, apartment building, architecture, aviary, bathhouse, bowling alley, cantilever, center, channelize, chapterhouse, clubhouse, corduroy, crenelation, customize, dormitory, dry walling, dry-wall, erecting, fabrication, farm building, feedlot, firetrap, frame, gambling house, gazebo, government building, grading, greenhouse, groin, hall, hall of fame, hotel, hotel-casino, house, house-raising, jerry-building, library, lock, medical building, ministry, morgue, observatory, office building, opium den, outbuilding, packinghouse, place of worship, planetarium, presbytery, raise, rebuild, rest house, restaurant, revet, rink, road construction, roman building, rotunda, ruin, rustication, school, shipbuilding, shooting gallery, signal box, skyscraper, student union, tavern, telecom hotel, temple, theater, wattle, whorehouse

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: build, builder, building, construct, construction, constructor, make, maker, making, progress

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: economics

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ing

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: positive