building+up+(verb)

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• building — noun 1 house, church, school, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ big, high rise, huge, large, massive, tall, towering ▪ low, low rise …   Collocations dictionary

• evacuate — verb ( ated; ating) Etymology: Middle English, to draw off morbid humors, from Latin evacuatus, past participle of evacuare to empty, from e + vacuus empty Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to remove the contents of ; empty 2. to discharge… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• plan — /plæn / (say plan) noun 1. a scheme of action or procedure: a plan of operations. 2. a design or scheme of arrangement. 3. a project or definite purpose: plans for the future. 4. a drawing made to scale to represent the top view or a horizontal… …  

• plot — I. /plɒt / (say plot) noun 1. a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose. 2. the plan, scheme, or main story of a play, novel, poem, or the like. 3. Gunnery the position of a target and the …  

• squat — I. verb (squatted; squatting) Etymology: Middle English squatten to crush, crouch in hiding, from Middle French (Picard dialect) esquatir, escuater, from Old French es ex + quatir to hide, from Vulgar Latin *coactire to squeeze, alteration of… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• mat — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English meatte, from Late Latin matta, of Semitic origin; akin to Hebrew miṭṭāh bed Date: before 12th century 1. a. (1) a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• design — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, to outline, indicate, mean, from Anglo French & Medieval Latin; Anglo French designer to designate, from Medieval Latin designare, from Latin, to mark out, from de + signare to mark more at sign Date: 14th… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• printer — noun 1 person/company that prints books, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ book ▪ commercial ▪ master ▪ jobbing (BrE) PRINTER + VERB ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• lump — lump1 noun 1》 a compact mass, especially one without a definite or regular shape.     ↘a swelling under the skin. 2》 informal a heavy, ungainly, or slow witted person. 3》 (the lump) Brit. informal casual employment in the building trade. verb 1》… …   English new terms dictionary

• lump — Ⅰ. lump [1] ► NOUN 1) a compact mass, especially one without a definite or regular shape. 2) a swelling under the skin. 3) informal a heavy, ungainly, or slow witted person. 4) (the lump) Brit. informal casual employment in the building trade …   English terms dictionary

• porter — 1. noun a) A person who carries luggage and related objects. By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting. b) A person in control of the entrance to a building 2. verb a) To serve as a porter …   Wiktionary