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architect
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An architect is someone who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings . To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design and construction of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from Middle French architecte , from Latin architectus , from Greek arkhitekton "master builder, director of works," from arkhi- "chief" (see archon ) + tekton "builder, carpenter" (see texture ). An Old English word for it was heahcræftiga "high-crafter." ...
Usage examples of architect.
As a man as a good programmer and cybernetic architect Ede had always reviled tychism, the school of philosophy teaching that absolute chance underlay all of reality.
In his own way, he was as fanatical as any Architect or true believer, only his was a fanaticism of logic and reason, and cold, clear thought.
It looked much like the old Architect temples he had once seen on Urradeth.
Most of the Architect temples on Urradeth are similarly squat and graceless, and Danlo thought that was too bad because organic stone can be the loveliest of materials to work.
But if this Architect had not cleansed himself within the last year, an alarm would sound, alerting the guardian robots that one of the unworthy was about to defile the temple.
And so, as if he were a worthy Architect properly gowned and cleansed, he opened the door to the meditation hall and stepped inside.
Being inside an Architect temple, he thought, was as stifling as being inside a computer.
It was his genius, as an architect, to find a way to model his mind in the programs of what he called his eternal computer.
Great Schism in 1749, at the end of the War of the Faces, there were fifty Architect sects.
And then would come the miracle that every Architect dreamed of with all the fervour of lovers who have been apart too long.
Neverness might have grown up making the Eight Duties of an Architect rather than dreaming of becoming cetics or scryers or pilots.
For a moment, he sat perfectly still, feeling what it would be like for some Elder Architect or master torturer to twist a needle knife up the optic nerve of his eye into his brain.
High Architect, Harrah Ivi en li Ede, is an exceptionally reasonable woman.
There were sounds of people praying in swarm inside an Architect temple.
Like any other Architect of Tannahill, he would carry this little jewelled box with him wherever he went.