Definition of "builder"

builder

/ˈbɪl.də/

noun
plural builders
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.
  Quotations
  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.
  Quotations
  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