单词 | system builder |
释义 | > as lemmassystem builder system builder n. (a) a person who builds or constructs a system (sense 13) of any kind; (b) Architecture a person who uses system building as a method of construction. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > other general builders under-builder1841 pile-builder1869 system builder1965 1760 J. Beattie Hares in Orig. Poems & Transl. 60 So fares the system-builder sage, Who..At last on some foundation-dream Has rear'd aloft his goodly scheme. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iv. 203 This is the Sieyes who shall be System-builder, Constitution-builder General; and build Constitutions..which shall all unfortunately fall before he get the scaffolding away. 1920 W. R. Sorley Hist. Eng. Philos. xiii. 300 The English philosophers were not great system-builders. 1965 Times 4 Dec. 5/7 If you want to give the system-builder a fair chance of developing his system you have got to have continuous production for a number of years. 1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 May 41/1 Karl Popper's bitter The Open Society and Its Enemies , which casts him [sc. Plato] as a villain, the precursor of other wicked system-builders. 2004 Personal Computer World Jan. 18/2 System builders have to allow for the Thermal Design Power (TDP) of components, which equals the wattage each uses when running flat out. < as lemmas |
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