Build-up

Definition

build /bÇld/ v ( pt, pp built /bÇlt/) ၁။ (က) ~ sth (of/from/out of sth); ~ sth (for sb) ေဆာက္သည္။ တည္သည္။ (လမ္း)ေဖာက္သည္။ build a house/road/railway ❍ a house built of stone/bricks ❍ Birds built their nests out of twigs. ❍ They built a new room for the baby. ❍ His father built him a model aeroplane. (ခ) ေဆာက္လုပ္သည္။ The city council intends to build on this site. ❍ They're building over (ie on the site of) the old market. ၂။ ပ်ဳိးေထာင္သည္။ တည္ေဆာက္သည္။ build a business from nothing ❍ build confidence/trust ❍ build a better future/a new career. n [U, C] ကိုယ္လံုးကိုယ္ထည္။ ကိုယ္လံုးကိုယ္ေပါက္။ a man of athletic/powerful/slender/average build ❍ We are (of) the same build. ❍ Our build is/ builds are similar. ❏ builder n ၁။ ေဆာက္လုပ္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္။ ကန္ထ႐ိုက္။ ၂။ ႐ုပ္လံုးေဖာ္သူ။ တည္ေဆာက္သူ။ an empire-builder ❍ a confidence-builder. ❏ build sth in / build sth into sth [ PHRV ] (esp passive) ၁။ ထည့္သြင္းတပ္ဆင္သည္။ build a cupboard/bookcase into a wall ❍ We're having new wardrobes built in. ၂။ ( fig ) ျဖည့္သည္။ ဆက္ထည့္သည္။ build an extra clause into the contract. ❏ build sth into sth [ PHRV ] (အပိုင္းအစ၊ အစိတ္ အပိုင္းမ်ားျဖင့္ တစ္ခုခုျဖစ္ေအာင္) ဖန္တီးျပဳလုပ္သည္။ ျပဳျပင္ဖန္တီးသည္၊ တည္ေဆာက္သည္။ build scraps of metal into a work of art ❍ Let us build this country into a great nation. ❏ build sth on / build sth onto sth [ PHRV ] မူလ အေဆာက္အအံုတြင္ အသစ္တိုးခ်ဲ႕ေဆာက္လုပ္သည္။ The new wing was built on (to the hospital) last year. ❏ build on sth [ PHRV ] အေျခခံ၍ ဆက္လက္ အေကာင္ အထည္ေဖာ္သည္။ build on earlier achievements/success/results. ❏ build sth on sth [ PHRV ] အေျချပဳသည္။ အေျခခံသည္။ build one's hopes on the economic strength of the country ❍ an argument built on sound logic. ❏ build up [ PHRV ] မ်ားသည္ထက္မ်ားလာသည္။ တစ္ေန႔ တျခား ႀကီးထြားလာသည္။ အရိွန္ျမင့္သည္ထက္ ျမင့္လာသည္။ The music builds up to a rousing climax. ❍ Traffic is building up on roads into the city. ❍ Tension built up as the crisis approached. ❏ build-up n ( pl build-ups ) ၁။ (က) တျဖည္းျဖည္း မ်ားလာျခင္း၊ ႀကီးထြားလာျခင္း၊ အရိွန္ျမင့္လာျခင္း။ a steady build-up of traffic ❍ A build-up of enemy forces is reported. (ခ) ~ (to sth) (အေရးႀကီးေသာကိစၥ) တစ္စထက္ တစ္စ နီးကပ္လာျခင္း။ (ယင္းကိစၥမ်ဳိးအတြက္) တျဖည္းျဖည္း ႀကိဳတင္ျပင္ဆင္ျခင္း။ the build-up to the President's visit. ၂။ ပြဲလမ္း (သို႔) ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖသူကို ႀကိဳတင္၍ အမႊမ္းတင္ ေရးသား ျခင္း။ ပို႔ေပးျခင္း။ The press has given the show a tremendous build-up. ❏ build oneself/sb up [ PHRV ] ပိုမိုက်န္းမာႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေအာင္ ျပဳသည္။ You need more protein to build you up. ❏ build sb/sth up [ PHRV ] အထူးခ်ီးက်ဴးသည္။ လြန္ကဲစြာ အမႊမ္းတင္သည္။ The film was built up to be a masterpiece, but I found it very disappointing. ❏ build sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ တစ္ဆင့္ၿပီးတစ္ဆင့္ တည္ေဆာက္ သည္။ build up a big library/a fine reputation/a thriving business ❍ build up one's strength after an illness. ၂။ (esp passive) ေနရာတစ္ခုတြင္ အေဆာက္အအံုမ်ား ထူထပ္လာသည္။ The village has been built up since I lived here. ❏ built (after advs and in compound adjs ) … တည္ေဆာက္ထားေသာ။ a well-built man (ie one who is broad, with big muscles) ❍ a solidly built wall. ❏ built-in ( also inbuilt) adj တစ္ပါတည္း ထည့္သြင္း ျပဳလုပ္ထားေသာ။ မူလကပါလာေသာ။ a bedroom with built-in wardrobes ❍ ( fig ) built-in guarantees/weaknesses/prejudice. ❏ built-up adj အေဆာက္အအံုထူထပ္ေသာ။ a built-up area. ❏ Rome was not built in a day [ IDM ] ( saying ) ခုေရတြင္းတူး ခုေရၾကည္ေသာက္လို၍ မရႏိုင္။

Examples

1. Do you know when this house was built?
2. They’re building a new bridge over the river.
3. You need planning permission to build on this land.
4. He’s building his own computer.
5. The boat was built to withstand every weather condition.
6. He set out to build a business empire and succeeded.
7. Many popular writers built up their reputations during the war.
8. The food industry needs to build consumer confidence again.
9. Multinational companies use a range of marketing techniques to build sales.