Build vs. Maintain: What's the Difference?

To form by combining materials or parts; construct.

To keep up or carry on; continue

To order, finance, or supervise the construction of

To keep in an existing state; preserve or retain

To develop or give form to according to a plan or process; create

To keep in a condition of good repair or efficiency

To increase or strengthen by adding gradually to

To provide for; support

To establish a basis for; found or ground

To keep in existence; sustain

To make something by combining materials or parts.

To defend or hold against criticism or attack

To engage in the construction or design of buildings

To declare to be true; affirm

To develop in magnitude or extent

To adhere or conform to; keep

To progress toward a maximum, as of intensity

To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.

The physical makeup of a person or thing, especially one's physique

To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).

(Computers) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.

To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.

(transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.

To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.

(transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.

To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.

(transitive) To establish a basis for (something).

To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.

(intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.

To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

(intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.

Keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g.,

To construct (software) by compiling its source code.

Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction;

To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.

Supply with necessities and support;

The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.

State categorically

Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.

Of power or authority

A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, or a configuration of a character's items or skills, created by the player.

Maintain for use and service;

To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

Maintain by writing regular records;

To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.

State or assert;

To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; - frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.

Support against an opponent;

To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.

Observe correctly or closely;

To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.

Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship; a great build on a man.

Constitution of the human body

Alternative names for the body of a human being;

Make by combining materials and parts;

Form or accumulate steadily;

Build or establish something abstract;

Improve the cleansing action of;

Order, supervise, or finance the construction of;

Give form to, according to a plan;

Be engaged in building;

Found or ground;

Bolster or strengthen;

Develop and grow;