Word Meanings - SURVEYOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector. Were 't not madness then, To make the fox surveyor of the fold Shak. 2. One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything;

Additional info about word: SURVEYOR

1. One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector. Were 't not madness then, To make the fox surveyor of the fold Shak. 2. One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc. 3. One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying. An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger. In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port. Abbot. Surveyor general. A principal surveyor; as, the surveyor general of the king's manors, or of woods and parks. An officer having charge of the survey of the public lands of a land district. Davies & Peck . -- Surveyor's compass. See Circumferentor. -- Surveyor's level. See under Level.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SURVEYOR)

• Architect
• Constructor
• contriver
• designer
• builder
• surveyor
• agent

Related words: (words related to SURVEYOR)

• ARCHITECTURAL
  Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture. -- Ar`chi*tec"tur*al*ly, adv.
• ARCHITECTRESS
  A female architect.
• ARCHITECTONIC
  1. The science of architecture. 2. The act of arranging knowledge into a system.
• ARCHITECTONIC; ARCHITECTONICAL
  1. Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp. 2. Relating to
• AGENT
  Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
• CONTRIVER
  One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
• ARCHITECT
  1. 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. 2. A contriver, designer, or maker. The architects of their
• ARCHITECTONICS
  The science of architecture.
• AGENTSHIP
  Agency. Beau. & Fl.
• DESIGNER
  One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration. 3. A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense. (more info) 1. One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
• ARCHITECTOR
  An architect. North.
• BUILDER
  One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.
• ARCHITECTIVE
  Used in building; proper for building. Derham.
• CONSTRUCTOR
  A constructer.
• SURVEYOR
  1. One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector. Were 't not madness then, To make the fox surveyor of the fold Shak. 2. One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything;
• ARCHITECTURE
  1. The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin. 3.
• SURVEYORSHIP
  The office of a surveyor.
• AGENTIAL
  Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
  British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• UNDERBUILDER
  A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.
• REBUILDER
  One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.
• SUBAGENT
  A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty.
• CASTLEBUILDER
  Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.