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Builder vs Architect - What's the difference?

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Builder is a related term of architect.


As nouns the difference between builder and architect

is that builder is a person who builds or constructs things while architect is a professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.

As a verb architect is

to design, plan, or orchestrate.

builder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who builds or constructs things.
  • (trade) Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
  • (rare, bodybuilding) A bodybuilder.
  • * 1991 — Samuel Wilson Fussell, Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder , ch 4
    • 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 .

    Derived terms

    * bodybuilder * builder's bum * builder's cleavage * builder's tea * homebuilder * mound builder * set-builder notation

    See also

    * *

    Synonyms

    * (a person who builds or constructs things) constructor

    Antonyms

    * (a person who builds or constructs things) destroyer, wrecker

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns

    architect

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia architect)
  • A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.
    • Plato made the causes of things to be matter, ideas, and an efficient architect .
  • A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
    • Peisistratus was the first architect of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.}}

    Derived terms

    * architecture * software architect * naval architect

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To design, plan, or orchestrate.
    • He architected the military coup against the government.