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单词 architect
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architectn.

Brit. /ˈɑːkᵻtɛkt/, U.S. /ˈɑrkəˌtɛk(t)/
Etymology: ? < French architecte or Italian architetto, < Latin architectus , < Greek ἀρχιτέκτων , < ἀρχι- (see archi- prefix) + τέκτων builder, craftsman. Several of the derivatives are formed as if on Latin tectus < tegĕre; e.g. architective, -tor, -ture.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

Brit. /ˈɑːkᵻtɛkt/, U.S. /ˈɑrkəˌtɛk(t)/
Etymology: < architect n.
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).
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