BUILT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does built mean? 

• BUILT (adjective)
  The adjective BUILT has 1 sense:

1. (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness

  Familiarity information: BUILT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUILT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness

Synonyms:

built; reinforced

Context example:

the built liquid detergents

Similar:

improved (made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing)

 Context examples 

When he was here he built for us this beautiful Emerald City, and now he is gone he has left the Wise Scarecrow to rule over us.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The straw therefore stretched itself from one bank to the other, and the coal, who was of an impetuous disposition, tripped quite boldly on to the newly-built bridge.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Young stalagmite material built up quickly, enabling the study of rainfall patterns over the last 50 years.

(Cave stalagmites reveal India’s rainfall secrets, SciDev.Net)

The Megalithic necropolises of Panoría and El Barranquete are cemeteries characterised by tombs built out of large stone slabs or masonry walls.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

The Beagle 2 Mars Lander, built by the United Kingdom, has been thought lost on Mars since 2003, but has now been found in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

('Lost' 2003 Mars Lander Found by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA)

To reach their conclusions, researchers built a model to replicate conditions on Titan.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that makes up the bulk of the universe's mass and creates the scaffolding upon which galaxies are built.

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)

Then with his lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built firmly into the massive masonry.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had built himself a wooden outhouse—he always called it the ‘cabin’—a few hundred yards from his house, and it was here that he slept every night.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This they shovelled out, and then built a fresh fire.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)