(n.) One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1945 Aneurin Bevan said: ‘We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, and now, we are the builders.’ And my God, how they built.
(2) This is all the more tragic in view of the fact that Correa sees himself as a builder of the nation state.
(3) You can actually create, be a builder and you can make things.” Wozniak’s faith in the power of education is no empty rhetoric.
(4) I’ve been a builder, doorman, worked in factories, I play rugby.
(5) Their story involves a fraudster who posed as their builder, set up a copycat email address and even managed to mock up an incredibly realistic fake invoice.
(6) The therapist must be prepared to act as both advocate and bridge-builder for the patient, with the patient's increasing participation.
(7) Sure, he has been doing the chat-show circuit in the US this past week to promote his latest sitcom, Bent (no relation to the Nazi homosexual persecution play – it's an Amanda Peet vehicle in which she may or may not go to bed with her builder).
(8) He said there were "jobs for doctors, nurses, architects, builders, even for street cleaners in the Islamic State".
(9) Better days....." silkpurse – Neville Brothers Yellow Moon: "Spent most of one summer as a builder listening to the Neville Brothers "Yellow Moon".
(10) Hold the champagne back for now - from a nation of bankers to a nation of builders?
(11) Today was the first part of the discussion and a relationship builder between Mr Trump and President Peña Nieto.
(12) But again, many in the industry are concerned the recovery could be snuffed out, with the National Federation of Builders pointing to threats to the housbuilding as mortgage lending stagnates.
(13) Shimon Peres, president of Israel, praised Mandela as "a builder of bridges of peace and dialogue who paid a heavy personal price for his struggle in the years he spent in prison and fighting for his people".
(14) The homes will be funded by lifting obligations on house builders to also provide affordable homes or build new infrastructure, such as roads or health services.
(15) The trio of Glaswegian builders buying me drinks comprised half the audience.
(16) Limited research information is available on the training programs and dietary practices of competitive male and female body builders.
(17) Although 5.5% of a property's value has been suggested by some sources, with another 3.5% contributed by builders and 5% by the borrower, this would mean the lender would still be liable for 86% of the value.
(18) Anglo Irish Bank, which was the preferred lender for property speculators and builders, epitomised the rise and ignominious fall of the Celtic Tiger economy.
(19) We need our Stephen Hawkings, but we also need Bob the Builder, firefighter Sally, Ned the nurse, soldier Salim and postal worker Patu.
(20) For developers and their dependent ecosystem of estate agents, architects, lawyers and builders, it has been a one-way super-bet.” About £15bn of investment is pouring into the Nine Elms area, which is directly across the river from super-swanky Chelsea but was until recently wasteland, sheds and warehouses.
Edifier
Definition:
(n.) One who builds.
(n.) One who edifies, builds up, or strengthens another by moral or religious instruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fact that the BBC does the popular ratings-chasing things as well as the edifying things has always been a key part of the public service brief.
(2) Yesterday Andy Murray finally won Wimbledon and climbed into the players' box to celebrate; Saturday on Centre Court was less edifying.
(3) 8.49pm GMT The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza has written a profile of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor that's sure to edify any serious Washington watcher.
(4) In the leader's office mistakes have been made, processes not followed, people excluded and details left unattended, and everyone will have their consequent un-Edifying moment, from bacon butties to posing with a copy of the Sun.
(5) Maybe it's guilt at our destruction of their habitats, the proliferation of internet-related animal cuteness or because there are parents keen to give their children something more edifying than Iron Man 3 .
(6) Mr Osborne's hero, a self-pitying, self-dramatising intellectual rebel who drives his wife away, takes a mistress and then drops her when his wife crawls back, will not be thought an edifying example of chivalry.
(7) The construction of clinical reality in German practice is distinctive and edifying for a cross-cultural understanding of medical systems of knowledge and praxis.
(8) The grisly spectacle of Muammar Gaddafi's death and posthumous career as Misrata's most popular body art exhibit may not have been very edifying, and news that the deposed dictator of Libya has been quietly buried at a secret desert location has to be welcome .
(9) In Nereis pelagica, graft of dorsal or ventral parts of a regenerate edified in the absence of nerve cord (=aneurogenic) on the ventral or dorsal face of a normal host demonstrates a completely dorsal nature of the body wall in these special regenerates.
(10) There’s Britishness and there’s Britishness, all of it authentic, much of it contradictory, not all of it edifying.
(11) Albania had entered the pitch to a predictable chorus of howls, whistles and things far less edifying – “Kill, kill the Albanian” and “Fuck, fuck Albania” were the soundtrack to the opening stages and a command-and-response routine of “Kosovo!” “Serbia!” between the east and west stands occupied much of the warm-up.
(12) But there is the less edifying explanation for why I'm here, which is that I looked at the list of past speakers, a remarkable list of the giants of global journalism – not just British hacks – with the series having been inaugurated by the legendary Ben Bradlee – and I could not resist being seen in their august company.
(13) Turkish history, however, is not littered with many edifying precedents.
(14) The opening scenes – the ones that made early news bulletins – were the least edifying.
(15) The vision of a prime minister, a future king and England's most recognised footballer prostrating themselves before Fifa's pseudo-papal state was never going to be edifying.
(16) The consequences of the three first-half pitch invasions that led to the match briefly being suspended will surely be less edifying.
(17) I agree with those who say that civil servants ought to be accountable if they make major blunders, but there has been nothing edifying about the way in which Ms May assigned culpability to officials before they had a chance to put their case.
(18) Frank admissions of loathing are always more edifying than PR guff for the credulous about brotherly love.
(19) It is certainly a less edifying view of the politicians involved, but it's a true view.
(20) The former chancellor told the Week in Westminster on BBC Radio 4: “The prime minister wouldn’t last 30 seconds if he lost the referendum and we’d be plunged into a Conservative leadership crisis which is never a very edifying sight.” The intervention by Clarke, whose frontbench career was revived by Cameron a year before the 2010 general election, will be seen by No 10 as particularly unhelpful.