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build into

vb. (context transitive English) to add components to a larger entity without interfering with the purpose or functionality of the larger entity

Usage examples of "build into".

He stopped, studied the curious joint made by root and trunk, then knelt and began feverishly scraping away the earth, and when he finished he had laid bare one of the most powerful joints in nature, the flexed kneelike structure that is formed where a heavy root branches out from a main trunk, and as it lay exposed Paxmore realized that he had found the solution to his problem: instead of bracing his exposed bow with cumbersome diagonals, he would build into it this massive joint which contained its own bracing.

Both MRI and CIR had become inexpensive machines, no longer under patent protection, and easy to build into the ACIP prototype units that were about the size of a large chair or a very small desk.

After that there came a more complete English dictionary, with interconnected entries so that meanings and concepts would build into a cohesive whole.

I think we would have to build into the new gene a way for it to destroy itself when its work is done.

There were 'waves of mage-storms' before, and if the reverse of the past is happening, these squalls will build into a powerful climax.

They seize the planets themselves, to build into the swarm, or to burn for fuel—.

He felt the whole kingdom slipping back as the civil wars broke and trampled all those long years of culture, the learning, the courtly honor, the concern for the poor - all those civilized things that so many men had spent so many years trying to build into the Deverry soul.

There's a limit to how much you can build into a hollow heel, even if you know what you're doing and have all the resources of New York City to draw from.

Someplace we could build into a great clan again before others of the People showed up to try to wrest it from us?

Would the ripples from her action fade into the placid smoothness of time's lake or build into a crushing tidal wave?

But hardest was to build up the decking of the rear compartment about twenty centimeters with chattels or stores that would not crush, fasten it down to keep it from floating in free fall, and make it smooth enough that it would not be unbearably lumpy as a bed-while making some effort neither to build into this platform nor to store in compartments under it things needed frequently or quickly.

But hardest was to build up the decking of the rear compartment about twenty centimeters with chattels or stores that would not crush, fasten it down to keep it from floating in free fall, and make it smooth enough that it would not be unbearably lumpy as a bed - while making some effort neither to build into this platform nor to store in compartments under it things needed frequently or quickly.

But hardest was to build up the decking of the rear compartment about twenty centimeters with chattels or stores that would not crush, fasten it down to keep it from floating in free fall, and make it smooth enough that it would not be unbearably lumpy as a bed -- while making some effort neither to build into this platform nor to store in compartments under it things needed frequently or quickly.