collector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kə-lĕk'tər
ipa: /kəˈlɛktɚ/
ipa: /kəˈlɛktə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: collectors
form: collecter
form: collectour
Etymology: From Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collector, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).
Senses: examples: text: She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
text: That old piano is just a big dust collector.
text: The Young Collector's Handbook. By E. C. R. Hadfield and C. Hamilton Ellis. London: Oxford University Press, Amen House, E.C.4. 7½ in. × 5 in. × 1 in. 78 pp. Illustrated. Price 4s. 6d. net.—Most persons are collectors at some periods of their lives. Some outgrow the habit; with others it becomes a mania; and with still others it is a lasting habit intelligently planned as one aspect of a study of a particular subject.
ref: 1941 January, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 48:
text: Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”
ref: 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
examples: text: She works for the government as a tax collector.
text: Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
ref: 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
text: I should've left my phone at home 'cause this is a disaster / Callin' like a collector / Sorry, I cannot answer
ref: 2010, “Telephone”, performed by Lady Gaga and Beyoncé:
glosses: A person who is employed to collect payments.
glosses: A person who is employed to collect payments.
A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
examples: text: Volumes[…] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.
ref: 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
examples: text: Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts
ref: 1655, Anthony Wood, diaries:
glosses: One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
glosses: A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
Derived terms: Boehm collector
bone collector
bow collector
collectorate
collectoress
collector lane
collector road
collectorship
collector shoe
collector's item
debt collector
dust-collector
fog collector
garbage collector
grievance collector
injustice collector
juice collector
kettle fur collector
noncollector
pure collector
refuse collector
solar collector
solar thermal collector
stamp collector
subcollector
tax collector
ticket-collector
ticket collector
toll-collector
undercollector
wound collector
Related terms: collect
collection