BUILD ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does build on mean? 

• BUILD ON (verb)
  The verb BUILD ON has 1 sense:

1. be based on; of theories and claims, for example

  Familiarity information: BUILD ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUILD ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be based on; of theories and claims, for example

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

build on; build upon; repose on; rest on

Context example:

What's this new evidence based on?

Hypernyms (to "build on" is one way to...):

depend on; depend upon; devolve on; hinge on; hinge upon; ride; turn on (be contingent on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "build on"):

owe (be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

The group set out to build on this work by incorporating a gene transfer approach to induce cells to produce an anti-inflammatory compound to prevent further joint degradation.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

How can you build on such a quicksand?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What matters is that you consistently build on that first initiative.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The goal of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center is to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of cancer through discovery, evaluation, and dissemination; to stimulate and support innovative, coordinated interdisciplinary clinical research on cancer diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control; to develop clinical applications of discovery and make these available to northern Ohio residents as quickly as possible through the integrated efforts of the major health systems in the region; to develop cancer prevention and control activities that build on the expertise of the Center and result in a reduction of cancer morbidity and mortality in the northern Ohio region and throughout the nation.

(Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Results from the Phase 2 study build on previous work suggesting that omalizumab, an injectable antibody drug approved to treat moderate to severe allergic asthma, can improve the safety and efficacy of OIT for allergies to a single food.

(Omalizumab improves efficacy of oral immunotherapy for multiple food allergies, National Institutes of Health)

The findings build on prior research showing that exposure to toxic metals, such as lead, and deficiencies of essential nutrients, like manganese, may harm brain development while in the womb or during early childhood.

(Baby teeth link autism and heavy metals, NIH)