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# building

«building» in Mova's school 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/building/#m1)

2) The work of making houses and other structures: «building is hard work». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/building/#m2)

3) (verb form) Making something by putting parts together: «we are building a den». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/building/#m3)

### 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

- Our school is a big brick building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/building/#x1)
- The tallest building in town has twenty floors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/building/#x2)
- In a fire drill, we leave the building quietly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/building/#x3)
- We are building a tower with blocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/building/#x4)
- Keep out of building sites; they are dangerous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/building/#x5)
- The library is the oldest building on our street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/building/#x6)
- The building has 6 floors with 4 flats on each, so 24 flats in all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/building/#x7)
- The building is the Warton Almshouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/building/#x8)

### 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

- [Big building jobs often take longer and cost more than planned.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/10/)
- [People must ask the council for planning permission before building something big, and neighbours can object.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/12/)
- [One event is often shown many times on different channels and phones; ten showings of a bombed building are still one building.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/10/)
- [The answer is worked out on huge computers far away, in buildings called data centres; nobody is typing it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/5/)
- [It was reported that fake AI pictures of an explosion near a famous building spread online and briefly worried people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/22-news-jobs-art-safety/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «building» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/building/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.