单词 | architect |
释义 | architectn. 1. a. A master-builder. spec. A skilled professor of the art of building, whose business it is to prepare the plans of edifices, and exercise a general superintendence over the course of their erection. (Cf. architecture n. 1.) naval architect: one who takes the same part in the construction of ships. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > [noun] > architect architect1563 architector1563 architectist1650 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > architect or builder surveyora1464 deviser1548 master builder1557 architect1563 architector1563 architectist1650 structurer1755 structurist1854 1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Aiiv John Shute painter and Architecte. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 732 The work some praise And some the Architect . View more context for this quotation 1758 S. Johnson Idler 11 Nov. 249 One pulls down his house and calls architects about him. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. x. 141 Temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect. 1854 J. Ruskin Lect. Archit. Add. 113 No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. b. loosely, A builder. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] bigger1307 biggandc1350 builderc1380 edifiera1464 erectora1552 upbigger1562 structora1634 tectonist1634 architect1665 compiler1713 raiser1949 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xiii. sig. Ff5 Babel, whose scattered Architects have indeed made themselves a Name. 2. One who designs and frames any complex structure; esp. the Creator; one who arranges elementary materials on a comprehensive plan. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > creator wrightc888 lightOE sheppendOE sheppera1175 wroughtc1275 creatorc1300 shaper1303 maker1340 workera1382 authora1413 workman1440 workmaster1531 artificer?1555 re-creator1587 architector1639 architect1659 enlivener1663 God almighty1787 the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > contriving or devising > one who contrives or devises finderc1384 coiner1581 mint master1599 architectress1601 minter1603 inventioner1612 architector1639 contrivera1652 architect1788 1659 Parl. Speech 2 The grand Architect would never have so framed it. 1788 T. Reid Ess. Active Powers Man i. vi. 526 Plato made the causes of things to be matter, ideas, and an efficient architect. 1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revelation i. 26 The great Architect of nature. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. xxi. 209 The inference that Peisistratus was the first architect of the Iliad and Odyssey. 3. a. One who so plans, devises, contrives, or constructs, as to achieve a desired result (especially when the result may be viewed figuratively as an edifice); a builder-up. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > planner compassera1513 contrivera1522 deviser1523 muser1556 platformer1572 plotter1589 architect1594 projector1596 machinator1611 designer1653 agitant1665 layer1674 concerter1693 schematist1710 planner1716 schemer1724 schemist1753 strategist1821 strategician1841 strategian1860 programmer1875 programmatist1895 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. iii. 121 Chiefe architect and plotter of these woes. View more context for this quotation 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 679 Most strange belly-Goddes, and Architects of gluttonny. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxi. 185 The architects of thir own happiness. 1867 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 I. ix. 335 The architect of his own fortunes. b. transferred of things. ΚΠ 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. viii. iii. 153 Gold is the Architect of Power! 1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xviii. 251 The deeds done to-day will be the architects of our bliss or woe. Draft additions December 2019 Computing. A person who is responsible for providing broad oversight and making high-level design decisions during the development of an application, the design of an IT system, etc.Frequently with modifying word, as application architect, solutions architect, systems architect, etc. ΚΠ 1970 Proc. Symp. Automated Methods of Computer Program Documentation 188 The descriptive material that functionally relates the program modules can be generated only by the program architect and must be updated as the program expands and evolves. 1992 Computerworld (Nexis) 7 Dec. 85 This kind of design approach requires senior development staff: senior systems architects, senior application architects, senior database designers and programmers. 2013 T. Chatfield Netymology xvii. 55 One common term in use to describe high-level program designers is ‘software architects’: people putting together virtual entities as seamless and sophisticated as entire buildings. 2016 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 26 Feb. (NI Job Finder section) 3 As a solutions architect..Gavin O'Prey must ensure the system designs meet the needs of healthcare professionals. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). architectv. To design (a building). Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > make architectural [verb (transitive)] > design architect1818 architecture1838 1818 J. Keats Let. July (1958) I. 350 This was architected thus By the great Oceanus. [But see architecture v.] 1890 Harper's Mag. Apr. 809/2 We would not give being the author of one of Mr. Aldrich's beautiful sonnets to be the author of many ‘Wyndham Towers’, however skilfully architected. 1913 W. Raleigh Some Authors (1923) 3 He has come out of the prison-house of theological system, nobly and grimly architected. Derivatives ˈarchitected adj. designed by an architect. ΚΠ 1923 Public Opinion 29 June 622/3 A..vague notion that a building ought to be architected. ˈarchitecting n. and adj. ΚΠ 1912 R. Macaulay Views & Vagabonds viii. 153 I have no sort of interest in the architecting or building trades. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1563v.1818 |
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