built-up

comparative more built-up · superlative most built-up · alternative built up · alternative builtup

1. Made of sections or layers, one on top of the other.

   Built-up weights in the wheels balance the revolving and 50 per cent of the reciprocating weight.

   1951 June, “British Railways Standard Class "5" 4-6-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 400

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   Lyness' built-up pilings were not high enough to keep the ground floor above water during this flood.

   2003, Roselynn Ederer, Saginaw County, Michigan

   The picture below dates to about 1860 and shows the Point not too many years after the construction of the Long Dock, seen here as a strip of built-up roadway just wide enough for two horsedrawn wagons to pass each other.

   2009, Richard Philp, Catskill Village

   Forget any idyllic Garden of Eden of running when we ran barefootand naked before Adam plucked a shoe with a built-up heel from the tree of running.

   2014, Nicholas Romanov, Kurt Brungardt, The Running Revolution

   Gunther's car was a '38 Oldsmobile with a built-up seat and special elongated pedals put on by Arnie the garageman for a reasonable price.

   2014, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Never Cross a Vampire

2. Having increased in size, quantity, or intensity over time; accumulated.

   All the built-up passion that I'd put to rest when I fell asleep last night came back with full force.

   2014, Kelly Carrero, Paradox

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   The stained-glass windows were cleaned; years of built-up soil removed from the murals; the wooden pews sanded and refinished, the kneeling benches covered with soft new carpeting.

   2008, Mary Higgins Clark, Where Are You Now?

   His analytical method gradually strips away built-up defensive layers of the personality until we are able to see our true selves.

   2011, Ruth Snowden, Understanding Jung

   This slowed entry into the bowel reduces built-up gas and runny poos which leads to a happier, more contented baby.

   2012, Jan Murray, Mum, Baby & Toddler

3. Constructed or enhanced.

   She picketed the skewbald paint with the others, then filled the coffeepot at the creek and started a fresh batch brewing on the built-up fire.

   2012, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Sins of Laughing Lyle

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   World society, as Williams puts it, 'is something of which we need to be suspicious because of the risks that its pursuit may create for the painfully built-up and relatively fragile structures of order that exist among states.

   2012, J. Troy, Christian Approaches to International Affairs

   Model 3 presents an amazing illustration of all else being equal where I regress the housing prices as a function of number of bedrooms and the square footage of the built-up area of the house.

   2015, Murtaza Haider, Getting Started with Data Science: Making Sense of Data with Analytics

4. Having buildings, especially having residences and high population density.

   It was all more built-up, she claimed, more busy; and there were objects around which were new and unidentifiable.

   2012, SK Webb, The Deviant Apparition

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   As they left the built-up centre of Glasgow the buildings gradually thinned out, and there was a feeling of light and space that she had never experienced before.

   2012, Meg Henderson, Chasing Angels

   Back then, any built-up place with walls surrounding it and a population of over ten thousand people was considered a “city.”

   2014, James F. Dunnigan, Daniel Masterson, The Way of the Warrior

5. UK(of an area of land) Having street lights and therefore subject to a 30 mph speed limit.
6. Europe(of an area of land) Having specific traffic signaling and therefore usually subject to a maximum 50 km/h speed limit.

   Contra-flow cycling is most often applied on basic cycle network links in low-speed local access roads, both within and outside the built-up area.

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   He contended that the speed limit of 80 km/h on motorways, outside a built-up area, which concerns inter alia goods vehicles did not apply to such a vehicle, which is subject to the limits relating to passenger cars.