Builder vs Grass - What's the difference?
builder | grass |
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
(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
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, title= (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
(uncountable) A lawn.
(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
(countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
(uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
The season of fresh grass; spring.
* Latham
(obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
* Bible Is. xl. 7
To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
* 1893 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:
(transitive, or, intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
To cover with grass or with turf.
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
As a noun builder
is a person who builds or constructs things.As a proper noun grass is
.builder
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 notationSee also
* *Synonyms
* (a person who builds or constructs things) constructorAntonyms
* (a person who builds or constructs things) destroyer, wreckerAnagrams
* English agent nounsgrass
English
(wikipedia grass)Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
- two years old next grass
- Surely the people is grass .
Synonyms
* ''Gramineae (alternative name)Derived terms
* grasshopper * grass widow * grassy * lemongrass * ryegrass * supergrassSee also
* (Poaceae) *Verb
(es)- He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
- to grass a fish