building

«building» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A structure with walls and a roof, such as a house… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a building, buildings); verb form (-ing form of «build»)

meaning for a pupil

1) A structure with walls and a roof, such as a house, school, shop or church. tree →

2) The work of making houses and other structures: «building is hard work». tree →

3) (verb form) Making something by putting parts together: «we are building a den». tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety: know the way out of a building, fire exits, and what to do in a fire drill. In maths, buildings appear in problems about floors, heights and shapes. In history, old buildings like castles tell us how people lived. Phrases: «a tall building», «leave the building», «building site», «building blocks».

examples

• When people learned of their existence, they all left the original artisan and went to them, honoring them, and negotiating with them in their building enterprises " (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• So was he seven years in building it. (Prophets 1KI.6.38, JPS 1917) tree →
• 'The day for building thy walls, even that day, shall be far removed.' (Prophets MIC.7.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. (Prophets 1KI.7.1, JPS 1917) tree →
• Our school is a big brick building. tree →
• The tallest building in town has twenty floors. tree →
• In a fire drill, we leave the building quietly. tree →
• We are building a tower with blocks. tree →
• Keep out of building sites; they are dangerous. tree →
• The library is the oldest building on our street. tree →
• The building has 6 floors with 4 flats on each, so 24 flats in all. tree →
• The building is the Warton Almshouse. tree →

note

As a noun it is countable: a building, buildings. It is also the -ing form of «build» (build, built, building). «Building blocks» are toys, and also means the basic parts of something.

In the corpora

• So was he seven years in building it.
• And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
• And it came to pass, when Baasa heard thereof, that he left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
• 'The day for building thy walls, even that day, shall be far removed.'
• Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and harried them while they were building,

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «building» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.