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Carpenter vs Builder - What's the difference?

carpenter | builder |

As a proper noun carpenter

is derived from the trade name carpenter.

As a noun builder is

a person who builds or constructs things.

carpenter

English

(wikipedia carpenter)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
  • (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
  • A two-wheeled carriage

    • Synonyms

    * joiner * chippy

    Related terms

    * carpentry (pos n) * The Carpenter

    External links

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    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