Architect
['ɑːkɪtekt] or ['ɑrkɪtɛkt]
Definition
(noun.) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings).
Typist: Lottie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.
(n.) A contriver, designer, or maker.
Inputed by Errol
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Designer of buildings, professor of building.[2]. Contriver, maker, former, author.
Typed by Darla
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Constructor, contriver, designer, builder, surveyor, agent
ANT:{Workman_carrying_out_plans}, destroyer, extinguisher
Checked by Cordelia
Definition
n. a master-builder: one who designs buildings and superintends their erection: a maker: any contriver as the Creator.—adjs. Architecton′ic pertaining to architecture: constructive: controlling having direction: (metaph.) pertaining to the arrangement of knowledge.—n. the science of architecture: the systematic arrangement of knowledge.—adj. Architect′ural.—n. Architect′ure the art or science of building: structure: in specific sense one of the fine arts the art of architecture—also used of any distinct style e.g. Gothic Byzantine architecture.
Checker: Rowena
Unserious Contents or Definition
Architects drawing plans in your dreams, denotes a change in your business, which will be likely to result in loss to you. For a young woman to see an architect, foretells she will meet rebuffs in her aspirations and maneuvers to make a favorable marriage.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. One who drafts a plan of your house and plans a draft of your money.
Typed by Bush
Examples
- The operation of my love then was after the model of this architect. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The architect, engineer, and illustrator find it in constant requisition. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Henry, Dr. Billings, the architect, Clark, of that country, and many other bright inventors and men of ability have given the subject devoted attention. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Salomon de Caus, engineer and architect to Louis XIII, in 1615 described how water might be raised by the expansion of steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- What a clever chap that architect is, though--how he takes his client's measure! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Vitruvius was a cultured engineer and architect. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- First, he was the architect of his own fortune. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- With a just sense of his limitations he undertook to write, not as a literary man, but as an architect. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Here, Kitty, come and look at my plan; I shall think I am a great architect, if I have not got incompatible stairs and fireplaces. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Apollodorus, architect of the Emperor Trajan, speaks of leathern bags with pipes attached. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I wanted to be an architect. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The expert architect and the two artists who assisted Tycho are delineated in the landscape and even in the setting sun in the top-most part of the painting, and in the decoration above. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He felt capable of furnishing the plans for the building, but thought it a hardship that he was compe lled to serve both as architect and laborer. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Would an architect be permitted to see the artist? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was one of the architects of our capture of the Alcazar. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What Animals are the Best Architects? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Beginning life as a stone mason, he rose by his own industry to be a master among architects and a prince among builders of iron bridges, aqueducts, canals, tunnels, harbours and docks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mann & McNaillie, architects, New York, his idea of the type of house he wanted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The armored cruiser was the particular development of the antagonistic views prevailing among naval architects. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The work requires industrial organizers, engineers, architects, educators, sanitists to achieve what leadership brings into the program of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This sequestration made a time of exceptional opportunity for architects and artists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I thought it as well, said Holmes as we climbed the stile, that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or on some definite business. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Marvin