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Definition of Built-up
1. Adjective. Peopled with settlers. "The built-up areas"
Definition of Built-up
1. Adjective. Made of sections, one on top of the other ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of an area of land) Having buildings, especially having residences ¹
3. Adjective. (British) (''of an area of land'') Having street lights and therefore subject to a 30 mph speed limit ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Built-up
Literary usage of Built-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"built-up Wooden Girders. — built-up wooden girders may be divided into the ...
built-up girder— type the same dimensions, since the planking is assumed to ..."
2. The microscope and its revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"Deep and built-up Cells.—The deep cells which are required for mounting Injections
and other microscopic preparations of considerable size and thickness, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The "Osmund" furnace, formerly in use in Sweden for converting bog iron oree into
malleable iron, was essentially s Catalan forge with the sides built up to ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"He built up a connection among the thieves, offering to sell any goods brought
to him, and to hand over the proceeds less a commission. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"336). the missionaries' meetings, so these have built up regular congregations
with ministers. People who jom these leave the established Church and become ..."
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