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BUILDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)
Synonyms:
builder; constructor
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("builder" is a kind of...):
contractor ((law) a party to a contract)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "builder"):
boatbuilder (a person who builds boats)
contractor (someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things)
home-builder; homebuilder; house-builder; housebuilder (someone who builds houses as a business)
jerry-builder (someone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit)
road builder (someone whose business is to build roads)
ship builder; shipbuilder (a person who builds ships as a business)
Derivation:
build (make by combining materials and parts)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country
Example:
empire builder
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("builder" is a kind of...):
creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action
Synonyms:
builder; detergent builder
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("builder" is a kind of...):
material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "builder"):
sodium pyrophosphate; tetrasodium pyrophosphate (a sodium salt of pyrophosphoric acid used as a builder in soaps and detergents)
sodium tripolyphosphate (a sodium salt of triphosphoric acid used as a builder in soaps and detergents)
tribasic sodium phosphate; trisodium orthophosphate; trisodium phosphate (the tertiary phosphate of sodium used as a builder in soaps and detergents)
Derivation:
build (improve the cleansing action of)
Context examples:
She believed (she told me, crying) that he was broken-hearted; though he was as full of courage as of sweetness, and worked harder and better than any boat-builder in any yard in all that part.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This grew so strong with me, that I resolved to go back to the yard before I took my dinner, and ask the boat-builder if he thought his attempting to return by sea at all likely?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Ham carrying me on his back and a small box of ours under his arm, and Peggotty carrying another small box of ours, we turned down lanes bestrewn with bits of chips and little hillocks of sand, and went past gas-works, rope-walks, boat-builders' yards, shipwrights' yards, ship-breakers' yards, caulkers' yards, riggers' lofts, smiths' forges, and a great litter of such places, until we came out upon the dull waste I had already seen at a distance; when Ham said, Yon's our house, Mas'r Davy!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
