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| building code
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun builder has 3 senses
- builder(n = noun.substance) detergent builder - a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action; Array is a kind of material, stuff
- builder(n = noun.person) Array - a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country; "empire builder" is a kind of creator
- builder(n = noun.person) constructor - someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building); Array has particulars: boatbuilder, contractor, home-builder, homebuilder, house-builder, housebuilder, jerry-builder, road builder, ship builder, shipbuilder
has particulars: sodium pyrophosphate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, sodium tripolyphosphate, tribasic sodium phosphate, trisodium orthophosphate, trisodium phosphate
Derived form verb build4
is a kind of contractor
Derived form verb build1
CIDE DICTIONARY
builder, n.
One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. [1913 Webster]
"In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
builder, n.
1 a contractor for building houses etc.; a master builder.
2 a person engaged as a bricklayer etc. on a building site.
1 a contractor for building houses etc.; a master builder.
2 a person engaged as a bricklayer etc. on a building site.
THESAURUS
builder
ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, barber, beautician, begetter, beginner, brazier, bricklayer, cabinetmaker, carpenter, carver, chandler, conceiver, constructor, contractor, cooper, craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, effector, electrician, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, farmhand, father, fitter, forger, founder, fuller, gas fitter, generator, glassblower, glazer, glazier, grower, hairdresser, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, lather, machinist, maker, manicurist, manufacturer, mason, master, master craftsman, mechanic, miller, mother, organizer, originator, past master, planner, plumber, potter, precursor, prime mover, producer, puttier, raiser, realizer, rigger, roofer, saddler, shaper, sire, smith, spinner, steeplejack, stonecutter, stonemason, tanner, tinker, tinner, turner, upholsterer, weaver, welder, woodcutter, wrecker, wrightROGET THESAURUS
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Agent
N doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator, executor, executrix, practitioner, worker, stager, bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant, laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum, workman, artisan, craftsman, handicraftsman, mechanic, operative, working man, laboring man, demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy, hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack, mere tool, beast of burden, drudge, fag, lumper, roustabout, maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan, carpenter, ganger, platelayer, blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright, machinist, mechanician, engineer, sempstress, semstress, seamstress, needlewoman, workwoman, tailor, cordwainer, minister, servant, representative, coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae, personnel, quorum pars magna fui, faber est quisque fortunae suae.
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