collector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).
Inflected forms:
form: collectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: collecter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: collectour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
pos: noun
examples: She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
That old piano is just a big dust collector.
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.
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.”
gloss: A person who is employed to collect payments.
pos: noun
examples: She works for the government as a tax collector.
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.
I should've left my phone at home 'cause this is a disaster / Callin' like a collector / Sorry, I cannot answer
gloss: A person who is employed to collect payments.
pos: noun
gloss: The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
pos: noun
gloss: A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
pos: noun
examples: Volumes[…] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.
gloss: One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts
gloss: A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.
pos: noun
Related words: collect
collection
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: инкасатор
roman: inkasator
lang: Catalan
word: col·lector
lang: Catalan
word: recaptador
lang: Cebuano
word: kolektor
lang: Czech
word: výběrčí
lang: Danish
word: indsamler
lang: Danish
word: opkræver
lang: Danish
word: skatteopkræver
lang: Finnish
word: veronkantaja
lang: French
word: percepteur
lang: French
word: encaisseur
lang: French
word: collecteur
lang: German
word: Kassierer
lang: Italian
word: esattore
lang: Italian
word: esattrice
lang: Khmer
word: អ្នកទារពន្ធ
roman: neak tie pʊən
lang: Latin
word: coactor
lang: Māori
word: kaikohi
lang: Portuguese
word: coletor
lang: Spanish
word: colector
lang: Spanish
word: recaudador
lang: Ukrainian
word: збира́ч
roman: zbyráč