builder

Etymology

From Middle English byldere, buyldere, perhaps dissimilated (with change of suffix) from Old English bylda (“builder”), equivalent to build + -er. Compare also Old English bȳtla (“hammerer, builder”).

noun

1. A person who builds or constructs things.
2. (trade) Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
3. (rare, bodybuilding) A bodybuilder.
   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. 1991, Samuel Wilson Fussell, chapter 4, in Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder
4. Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of automated output.
   To cut coding time and to insure maintainability of the algorithms, an "algorithm builder tool" was constructed. 1987, Proceedings, International Foundation for Telemetering Conference - Volume 23, page 287
   A map builder uses map layers from several sources and adds data to make a custom map. 1999, Michael Zeiler, Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design, page 46
   Many users may find this easier to use as each field is clearly displayed and the user interface provides a formula builder and a Check formula function. 2013, David Feldman, Jason Himmelstein, Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint, page 217