Build-up

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  buildup \build"up\, build-up \build-up\n.
     1. the act of building up an accumulation.
  
     Syn: build-up.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  


     2. the events, such as advertising or publicity, causing
        increased interest in some coming event. The buildup to
        Superbowl XXIV was the most intense of the series.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  buildup
       n 1: the act of building up an accumulation; "I envied his rapid
            buildup of assets"; "a military buildup in preparation
            for the invasion"
       2: the result of the process of accumulation; "the buildup of
          leaves blocked the drain pipes"
       3: highly favorable publicity and praise; "his letter of
          recommendation gave her a terrific buildup"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "buildup":
     access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation,
     acknowledgment, addition, advance, advertising, advocacy,
     advocating, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent,
     assemblage, assembly, augmentation, ballooning, bloating, blurb,
     boom, boost, broadening, bruiting, building, combination,
     commendation, composition, compound, constitution, construction,
     crescendo, development, drumbeating, edema, elevation, embodiment,
     enlargement, expansion, extension, fabrication, fashioning, flack,
     flood, formation, gain, getup, good word, greatening, growth, gush,
     hike, honorable mention, hype, incorporation, increase, increment,
     inflation, jump, junction, leap, make, makeup, mixture, mounting,
     multiplication, organization, piecing together, plug,
     press-agentry, productiveness, proliferation, promoting, promotion,
     publicization, publicizing, puff, puffery, putting together, raise,
     recognition, rise, setup, shaping, snowballing, spread, structure,
     structuring, surge, swelling, syneresis, synthesis, tumescence, up,
     upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, waxing, widening