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Builder   /bˈɪldər/   Listen
Builder

noun
1.
A substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action.  Synonym: detergent builder.
2.
A person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country.
3.
Someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building).  Synonym: constructor.



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"Builder" Quotes from Famous Books



... girders. The beams had 1-1/8-in. tension rods in the bottom. At the supports a short 1/4-in. rod was used near the top of the beam for continuity. Does this need any comment? It was not the work of a novice or of an inexperienced builder. ...
— Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design • Edward Godfrey
... been the founder of a sect. He has never been a builder of partition walls. He has helped throw down a good many. But still, without making proclamation, he has been the founder of a school which has enlarged and broadened the Church into the Congregation, and which has brought the ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... garrison, and that the utter worthlessness of the oligarchs would render any attempt to save the oligarchy vain. His constitution resembled a temporary dike thrown into the raging breakers; it was no reproach to the builder, if some ten years afterwards the waves swallowed up a structure at variance with nature and not defended even by those whom it sheltered. The statesman has no need to be referred to highly commendable isolated reforms, such as those of the ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... from being complete, even so far as to make him master of matter; his ignorance leaves him a prey to all the illusions of gross matter, so soon as he comes into contact with it, and he is not fit to be a builder of a universe, being subject to the deceptive visions caused by gross matter—as a child, looking through a piece of blue glass, imagines all the outside world to be blue. The object of a cycle of incarnation is to free him from these illusions, so that when he is surrounded by and working in gross ...
— Death--and After? • Annie Besant
... gravity, the nature {249} of the rock, and the slope of the precipice,—events and circumstances, all of which depend on natural laws; but there is no relation between these laws and the purpose for which each fragment is used by the builder. In the same manner the variations of each creature are determined by fixed and immutable laws; but these bear no relation to the living structure which is slowly built up through the power of selection, whether this be ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin


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