Collector
[kə'lektə] or [kə'lɛktɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes.
(noun.) a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth.
(noun.) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes).
(noun.) a person who collects things.
Editor: Ryan--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.
(n.) A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
(n.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
(n.) One authorized to collect debts.
(n.) A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
Checker: Rowena
Unserious Contents or Definition
A man whom few care to see but many ask to call again.
Editor: Nicolas
Examples
- When the science of static electricity was thus far developed, with a machine for generating it and a collector to receive it, many experiments followed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If the collector himself should become bankrupt, the parish which elects him must answer for his conduct to the receiver-general of the election. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But your real collector values a thing for its rarity. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- One of the latest forms of such a collector has for its essential principle the vertical or rotatory air current, which it is claimed moves and precipitates the finest particles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Having put the Collector into the hands of his servant, Dobbin loitered about, smoking his cigar before the inn door. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The gentleman was an enthusiastic collector of Oriental antiquities, and had been for many years a liberal patron of the establishment in Lambeth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Outside along the street were the refuse cans from the houses waiting for the collector. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- And is there any news of the Collector of Boggley Wollah? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I'm not really a collector, you see; I simply like to have good editions of the books I am fond of. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It seems to be the mere rarity that attracts the average collector. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- With this mild beverage before him, George Osborne found the ex-Collector of Boggley Wollah groaning on the sofa at his lodgings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Thus the Leyden jar is both a collector and a condenser of electricity. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- What a beautiful, BYOO-OOTIFUL song that was you sang last night, dear Miss Sharp, said the Collector. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was perhaps her very manner of holding herself aloof that appealed to his collector's passion for the rare and unattainable. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The Pacha of a Pachalic does not trouble himself with appointing tax-collectors. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We collectors feel an interest in every new man till he has seen all we have to show him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Many pieces have strayed into the hands of great private collectors of rare porcelain, and both England and Russia have many fine examples of his masterpieces. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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