builder
One who builds or constructs things.
Noun
- One who builds or constructs things.
Synonyms: constructor destroyer wrecker
- Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
- Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of (often automated) output.
- To cut coding time and to insure maintainability of the algorithms, an "algorithm builder tool" was constructed. - 1987, Proceedings, International Foundation for Telemetering Conference - Volume 23, page 287:
- A map builder uses map layers from several sources and adds data to make a custom map. - 1999, Michael Zeiler, Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design, page 46:
- Many users may find this easier to use as each field is clearly displayed and the user interface provides a formula builder and a Check formula function. - 2013, David Feldman, Jason Himmelstein, Developing Business...
- Clipping of bodybuilder.
- In the competitions, bodybuilders go through "mandatories"—a set of mandatory poses—in the morning, where the judges compare the body parts of the builders. - 1991, Samuel Wilson Fussell, chapter 4, in Muscle:...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan Old English bytlan Middle English bylden Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English byldere English builder From Middle English byldere, buyldere, from bylden + -er. By surface analysis, build + -er. Compare Old English bylda, bytla (“hammerer, builder”).
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