builder

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɪl.də/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɪl.dɚ/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪldə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: build‧er

Etymology 1

Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan
Old English bytlan
Middle English bilden
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-os?
Proto-Indo-European *-o-
Proto-Indo-European *-so-
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós
Proto-Italic *-āsijos
Proto-Italic *-āsios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
Middle English bildere
English builder

    From Middle English bildere, byldere, from bilden + -ere.[1] By surface analysis, build +‎ -er. Compare Old English bylda, bytla (“hammerer, builder”).

    Noun

    builder (plural builders)

    A team of builders on a job site (1917)
    1. One who builds or constructs things.
      Synonym: constructor
      Antonyms: demolisher, destroyer, wrecker
    2. (trading) Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
    3. Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of (often 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.
    4. (rare, bodybuilding) Clipping of 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.
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    Etymology 2

    Back-formation from buildering, a blend of building + bouldering.

    Verb

    builder (third-person singular simple present builders, present participle buildering, simple past and past participle buildered)

    1. (intransitive) To partake in buildering (the practice of climbing buildings as a recreational activity).
      • 1994 May 7, Anthony R Bubb, quoting Arthur Kingston, “Buildering!”, in rec.climbing‎[1] (Usenet):
        Lately I have been buildering just about every day, and I'm starting to do it more than I climb real rock.
      • 2000 March 14, Eugene Miya, “Alain Robert...Spiderman?[sic]”, in rec.backcountry‎[2] (Usenet):
        Oh, I was buildering in the 1970s and ended about 1982/83.
      • 2000 April 25, Chad Lake, “TR - FBI Building, Washington DC”, in rec.climbing‎[3] (Usenet):
        Every once in a while when I was buildering on the Indiana University campus; killer rough-cut limestone all over the place!

    References

    1. ^ “builder, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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