builder
nounUK /ˈbɪl.də/ · US /ˈbɪl.dəɹ/
Etymology From Middle English byldere, buyldere, from bylden + -er. By surface analysis, build + -er. Compare Old English bylda, bytla (“hammerer, builder”).
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One who builds or constructs things.
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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:
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- 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 Intelligence Apps for SharePoint, page 217:
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Bodybuilding, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Abbreviation, Clipping, Rare 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: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder:
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- building worker, construction worker
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- fabricator, maker