builder
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English byldere, buyldere, perhaps dissimilated (with change of suffix) from Old English bylda (“builder”), equivalent to build + -er. Compare also Old English bȳtla (“hammerer, builder”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɪl.də/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɪl.dɚ/, [ˈbɪɫ.ɾɚ]
- Rhymes: -ɪldə(ɹ)
Noun edit
builder (plural builders)
- A person who builds or constructs things.
- (trade) Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
- (rare, bodybuilding) A bodybuilder.
- 1991, Samuel Wilson Fussell, chapter 4, in Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely 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.
- Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of automated output.
- 1987, Proceedings, International Foundation for Telemetering Conference - Volume 23, page 287:
- To cut coding time and to insure maintainability of the algorithms, an "algorithm builder tool" was constructed.
- 1999, Michael Zeiler, Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design, page 46:
- A map builder uses map layers from several sources and adds data to make a custom map.
- 2013, David Feldman, Jason Himmelstein, Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint, page 217:
- 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.
Synonyms edit
- (a person who builds or constructs things): constructor
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a person who builds or constructs things
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a bodybuilder — see bodybuilder