What's the difference between builder and ruiner?

Builder


Definition:

  • (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.

Ruiner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, ruins.

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