builder

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country

   empire builder

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)

5. 5
   noun

   a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action

6. 6
   noun

   One who builds or constructs things.

7. 7
   noun

   Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan Old English bytlan Middle English bylden Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios 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”).