built-up
Use Built-up in a sentence
adjective
1.
built by the fastening together of several parts or enlarged by the addition of layers: This shoe has a built-up heel.
2.
(of an area) filled in with houses, as an urban region.
Origin:
1820–30
1820–30
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| built-up | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | having many buildings (esp in the phrase built-up area) |
| 2. | denoting a beam, girder, or stanchion constructed of sections welded, riveted, or bolted together, etc |
| 3. | increased by the addition of parts: built-up heels |
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Built-up
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
But the landscape it occupies is the built-up continent of postwar urbanization.
Remove entire existing built-up roof system down to the existing roof structure including all flashing and termination materials.
It says it is launching its own inquiry into an episode involving phosphorus shells landing in a built-up area.
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