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Definition: Collector |
CollectorNoun1. A person who collects things. 2. A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes). 3. A crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth. 4. The electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "collector" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Etymology: Collector \Col*lect"or\, noun. [from Late Latin expression collector one who collects: compare to the French expression collecteur.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A man whom few care to see but many ask to call again. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Electrical Engineering | The region of a bipolar transistor into which charge carriers flow from the base region, having previously been emitted from the emitter region. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The region between the collector junction and the collector electrode. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| An electrode which collects electrons or ions that have completed their functions. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| An assembly of conducting members insulated from one another, in the radial-axial plane, against which brushes bear. Used to enable current to flow from one part of a circuit to another by sliding contact. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Energy | The component of a solar energy heating system that collects solar radiation, and that contains components to absorb solar radiation and transfer the heat to a heat transfer fluid (air or liquid). (references) |
Environment | A sewer which receives dry-weather flow from a number of transverse sewers or outlets and frequently, additional, predetermined quantities of storm water, if from a combined system, and conducts such water to a point for treatment or disposal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Any person authorized by the competent authorities to collect eggs from a producer for delivery:a)to a packing centre, b)to a market selling exclusively to wholesales whose undertakings are approved as packing centre; or c)to industry. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Nozzle located down-stream of a free flowing jet, normally used to catch the energy of the flowing medium of the jet. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Since froth flotation is a selective process, reagents called -- are added to the pulpe. These coat the particles to be floated with a mater repellent surface that will adhere to air bubbles. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | A bell-mouth duct downstream of an open working section of a wind tunnel. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A heteropolar compound containing a hydrogen-carbon group and an ionized group, chosen for ability to adsorb selectively in a froth flotation process and render adsorbing surfaces relatively hydrophobic. A promoter. (references) |
Occupations | Locates customers to collect installments or overdue accounts, damage claims, or nonpayable checks: Visits or phones customer and attempts to persuade customer to pay amount due or arranges for payment at later date. Questions neighbors and postal workers at post office to determine new address of customers. May have service discontinued or merchandise repossessed. Keeps record of collections and status of accounts. May deliver bills. May sell insurance or other service. May be designated according to type of collection as Claims Collector (clerical); Insurance Collector (insurance); Utility-Bill Collector (clerical). (references) |
| Removes collection bags filled with knitted hosiery from knitting machines: Marks work tickets with information, such as style and size of hosiery being knitted on machines, and attaches tickets to machines. Scans collection bags to detect bags filled with hosiery, removes bags from machines, and ties bags, using knitted loops attached to tickets. Places full bags in handcart and attaches empty bags to machines. Pushes handcarts containing full bags to designated area for further processing. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | COLLECTOR. A highwayman. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Solar | A device that receives solar energy and converts it to useful energy forms. The following figure from Shining On illustrates several types of collectors. (references) |
Transportation | Road providing access from estate roads to the primary road system. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Collecting is a hobby consisting of the acquisition of items of a particular category and organizing or displaying them. These collections are often highly organized and carefully cataloged.
Some collectors choose to focus on a specific subtopic within their area of general interest, for example 19th Century postage stamps, milk bottle labels from Sussex, or Mongolian harnesses and tack. Others prefer to keep a more general collection, accumulating any or all Star Trek merchandise, or postage stamps from all countries of the world.
Most of the common collecting areas have specialized commercial dealers that trade in the items being collected, as well as in any tools or display mechanisms that collectors use. Many of these dealers started as collectors themselves, then turned their hobby into a profession.
Here are some of the collections often made:
A variety of physically collecting things is collecting experiences of a particular kind, e.g. seeing things such as all vehicles of a particular kind (see trainspotting, aircraft spotting, metrophiles, bus spotting), bird-watching, visiting all countries systematically, swimming across all main rivers, visiting all McDonald's restaurants in a country, etc.
- Antique collecting
- Art collecting
- Automobile license plate collecting, only possible in places where the plates are not government property.
- Egg collecting (Oology)
- Book collecting (Bibliophilia, often by genre)
- ephemera
- fantasy
- science fiction
- movie tie-ins
- romances etc.
- westerns
- Bottle collecting
- Brand article collecting
- Coca-Cola
- Card collecting
- Trading cards
- Sports cards
- Baseball cards
- Basketball cards
- Football cards
- Hockey cards
- Non-sports cards
- postcards
- antique cards eg. early Christmas cards
- Character collecting
- Elvis Presley memorabilia
- Mickey Mouse etc
- Coin collecting (also medals and tokens) (Numismatics)
- Comic book collecting
- Currency collecting (Notaphily) - paper currency collecting
- Doll collecting
- Home-computer collecting
- Keyring collecting
- Matchbook collecting - and matchbox collecting
- Memorabilia
- Miniature collecting
- Patch/badge collecting (Scutelliphily)
- Phone-card collecting
- Record collecting (see also Günther Schifter)
- Seashell collecting (Conchology)
- Silver collecting
- Souvenir spoon collecting
- Stamp collecting (Philately)
- Thimble collecting
- Weapon collecting
- firearms
- knives
Further reading
- Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown's Super Book of Things to Do and Collect: Based on the Charles M. Schulz Characters, Random House, 1984, paperback, ISBN 0394831659, hardcover in library binding ISBN 0394931653
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Collecting."
Synonyms: CollectorSynonyms: accumulator (n), aggregator (n), gatherer (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: bunking (food & agriculture). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in. |
Director | Intendant; overseer, overlooker; supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile; moderator, monitor, taskmaster; master; leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator; caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy. |
Master | Regent, viceroy, exarch, palatine, khedive, hospodar, beglerbeg, three-tailed bashaw, pasha, bashaw, bey, beg, dey, scherif, tetrarch, satrap, mandarin, subahdar, nabob, maharajah; burgrave; laird; (proprietor); collector, commissioner, deputy commissioner, woon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm not a sicko, I'm a collector of these new items of such sentimental value to me. (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) I didn't realize you were an art collector. I thought you just collected corpses (North by Northwest; writing credit: Ernest Lehman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Collector (1972) Collector Malathy (1967) The Collector (1965) Coin Collector Goodrich Dirt (1918) Pimple as a Rent Collector (1912) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | The United States Marine Hospital at Chelsea. The building was made of stone and built in 1827. Patients were sick and disabled seamen. Although run by the revenue collector of Boston and Charlestown, a physician and surgeon were appointed by the President of the United States. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A rainwater collector - part of an acid rain observation network that extends from Hilo all the way up Mauna Loa to the observatory at various elevations. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Figure 25. Net WP2 as recommended by working group Number 2 of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research in 1966. Plan of the net on left. Specimen collector on the right. This net was meant to collect zooplankton from the upper 200 meters of the water column. It was first tested by Paul Smith of the U. S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in the NE Pacific in 1966. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Acrylic painting of three Redheads flying low over water in late afternoon by Arthur G. Anderson, North 5995 CTH O.T., Onalaska, Wisconsin 54650. A freelance artist and collector of antique cars. In addition to waterfowl, Anderson likes to paint bald eagles, white-tailed deer, and other species inhabiting the area near his home. *first time a sleeve was used instead of a plate. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |
 | Customs collector has pleasant job. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Woodstock, Vermont. Horse of a garbage and rubbish collector. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical harvesting seed collector from a guayule nursery bed. The plant grows a considerable seed crop during the first year. This machine brushes the seed off the seed stalks into containers. Guayule plantings will pr. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fort Kent, Maine. George Tingley, tax collector. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | West Chicago, Illinois. Officers of Albert Keep Lodge, Number 364, International Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Left to right: vice-president E.H. Schlueter, a yard engine foreman; treasury and local chairman, F.C. Ehredt, ticket collector and assistant. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wonsan - visitors from the steamer calling upon the collector of imperial customs. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "The Binman" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "A rubbish collector in london." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Metcalf & Eddy proposed a structured payment system to introduce wastewater treatment tariffs into the BMA areas of authority, with the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority acting as collector. (references) | |
Human Rights | India | The District Collector has ordered an inquiry into the death. (references) |
Trade | Philippines | Collector immediately forwards case to the Commissioner for review. (references) |
Korea | Bonded storage facilities in Korea are under the supervision of the Collector of Customs. (references) | |
Travel | Saudi Arabia | The Embassy in Riyadh is located at Collector Road M, Riyadh Diplomatic Quarter. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
James Hewitt | Someone posed as a private collector. And had they been going to someone who would keep them private, I might well have been tempted to take that sort of money for them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Collector" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.20% of the time. "Collector" is used about 935 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.2% | 862 | 8,208 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.59% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Noun (common) | 0.21% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 935 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "collector": antique collector ♦ book collector ♦ butterfly collector ♦ centrifugal collector ♦ coin collector ♦ collector aperture ♦ collector box ♦ collector cover ♦ collector current ♦ collector flow factor ♦ collector of internal revenue ♦ concentrating collector ♦ current collector ♦ debt collector ♦ dust collector ♦ evacuated collector ♦ evacuated tubular collector ♦ focusing collector ♦ garbage collector ♦ milk collector ♦ ohmic collector resistance ♦ refuse collector ♦ rent collector ♦ scroll collector ♦ solar collector ♦ stamp collector ♦ tax collector ♦ ticket collector ♦ toll collector ♦ trickle collector ♦ trickling water collector ♦ value to the collector. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "collector": collector-distributor, collector-emitter, collector-storage, collector-wallah. | |
Ending with "collector": book-collector, dung-collector, tax-collector, ticket-collector. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "collector"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aalwyntapper (aloe juice collector, pauper, poor, poor devil, poor man). (various references) | |
Albanian | mbledhës (picker, redactor, solicitor), kontrollues biletash, kolektor (manifold), koleksionist, grumbullues (cumulative, hoarder). (various references) | |
Arabic | هاو (amateur, amateurish, dabbler, dabbling, devotee, fan, non-professional, unprofessional), المجمع أداة لتجميع التيار, الجماع, الجامع (adder, compiler), الجابي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | събирач (accumulator, fly, picker), колекционер (accumulator), колектор (accumulator, manifold, picker), бирник (gatherer, tax collector). (various references) | |
Chinese | 收藏家. (various references) | |
Czech | výbìrèí, sbìratel (gleaner, herbalist), kolektor. (various references) | |
Danish | collector, opkøber, bydreng, fangedyse (receiver), fordelingsvej (local distributor road), hoveddræn (collecting drain, main drain), ægsamler, kommutator (collector ring, commutator, rotary converter, rotary convertor, rotary transformer), udskiller (trap), opsamler (header), samlebrønd (intercepting sewer, interceptor, recharging basin, soakaway, sump, trunk sewer), samledræn (collecting drain, main drain), samleledning (collecting drain, main drain), stroemaftager (pantograph), stroemvender (commutator), kollektor (header). (various references) | |
Dutch | commutator (commutator, telegraphic concentrator), collector (collector ring, commutator, receiver), verzamelweg (local distributor road), verzamelleiding (collecting drain, header, main drain), verzameldrain (collecting drain, main drain), verzamelaar (accumulator), stroomwisselaar (commutator), sleepstroomafnemer, opvangtrechter, opvangopening (receiver), opvangmond, loopjongen (errand-boy), kollektor, inzamelaar, afscheider (catchpot, catch-pot, coalescing type filter, separator, trap). (various references) | |
Esperanto | impostisto (revenue agent, tax collector), alosukeltiristo (aloe juice collector). (various references) | |
Farsi | فراهم اورنده , گرداورنده (Compiler), تحصیلدار, جمع کننده (Astringent). (various references) | |
Finnish | keräilijä. (various references) | |
French | encaisseur. (various references) | |
German | sammler (accumulator, collectors, gatherer, picker), kollektor (commutator), Sammel-Elektrode. (various references) | |
Greek | συλλέκτης (accumulator, collector ring, commutator, exhaust manifold, hay pick-up, header, manifold, picking attachment, pick-up, pick-up attachment, pick-up cylinder, receiver, sink, surge drum, windrow pick-up attachment). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתרים (fund raiser), לקטן (gatherer), אוגר (hoarder, lexicographer), אגרן, אספן, גבאי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | pénzbeszedő, mûgyûjtõ, jegyszedő (attendant, conductor, taker, ticket-porter, usher), gyûjtõ (collecting), gyűjtő (accumulator), áramszedő (current collector). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemungut (picker). (various references) | |
Italian | collettore (gatherer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 収集家 , コルレス契約 (cholera, cholesterol, collect, collect call, collection, collectivism, collectomania, colloid, correction, correspondence, correspondent, correspondent arrangement). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅうしゅうか, コレクター , コレクタ . (various references) | |
Korean | 수집가. (various references) | |
Manx | chagleyder (accumulator, gatherer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ollectorcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | coletor (revenue agent, tax collector), colector (revenue agent, tax collector), colecionador, cobrador de impostos (tax-collector, tax-gatherer), cobrador (conductor, dun, receiver, runner), via distribuidora (local distributor road), via colectora (local distributor road), orifício receptor (receiver), orifício colector (receiver), estrada colectora (local distributor road), esgoto colector (intercepting sewer, interceptor, trunk sewer), empregado à comissão, ajuntador (assembler). (various references) | |
Romanian | colector (accumulator, collecting, gatherer, manifold), colecţionar (faddist, hobbyist), taxator (conductor, tram conductor, valuer), strângãtor (accumulative, acquisitive, economical, gatherer, parsimonious, provident, sparing, stretcher), rezervor (cistern, fount, fountain, receiver, reservoir, tank), perceptor (raiser, revenue officer, tax collector), adunãtor (accumulative, economical, gatherer), achizitor (accumulator, acquirer, buyer, purchaser), încasator. (various references) | |
Russian | коллектор (accumulator, commutator, commuter, header, manifold, sampler, sewer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skupljač (accumulator, compiler, gatherer, gleaner), kolekcionar, akviziter. (various references) | |
Spanish | colector (manifold), coleccionista, vía distribuidora (local distributor road), vía colectora (local distributor road), trole (trolley), recolector, receptor (pickup, receiver, receptor), recaudador, mozo (barman, busboy, inamorato, jester, junior, kid, killer, lad, laddie, porter, railway porter, server, waiter, young, young man), acumulador (accumulator, battery, secondary cell, storage battery). (various references) | |
Swedish | samlare (accumulator, picker), kollektor (drain, header). (various references) | |
Turkish | yardım toplayan kimse, toplayan kimse, toplayıcı (picker, taker, totalizator, totalizer, tote), tahsildar (collecting agent, debt colector, receiver), kolektör, koleksiyoncu (gatherer, gleaner). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яygymзy. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | інкасатор (runner), контролер (checker, comptroller, overseer), колекціонер, колектор (commutator, junction box, manifold). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cực góp (sampler), vành góp, người thu thập, người sưu tầm, ống góp. (various references) | |
Welsh | casglydd, casglwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acceptor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "collector": collectors, collectorship, collectorships. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "collector": noncollector. (additional references) | |
Words containing "collector": noncollectors. (additional references) | |
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"Collector" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caldecot, Caldecote, Collco, collecta, collecter, collectorem. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "collector" (pronounced kule"kter or kle"kter) |
| 5 | -l e" k t er | lector. |
| 4 | -e" k t er | connecter, connector, defector, detector, director, erector, Hector, injector, inspector, nectar, objector, projector, protector, rector, sector, Specter, spectre, vector. |
| 3 | -k t er | abductor, actor, benefactor, character, chiropractor, compactor, conductor, constrictor, constructor, contractor, detractor, doctor, factor, inductor, instructor, malefactor, predictor, Proctor, prospector, reactor, refractor, semiconductor, stricter, subcontractor, superconductor, tractor, Victor. |
| 5 | -l e" k t er | lector. |
| 4 | -e" k t er | connecter, connector, defector, detector, director, erector, Hector, injector, inspector, nectar, objector, projector, protector, rector, sector, Specter, spectre, vector. |
| 3 | -k t er | abductor, actor, benefactor, character, chiropractor, compactor, conductor, constrictor, constructor, contractor, detractor, doctor, factor, inductor, instructor, malefactor, predictor, Proctor, prospector, reactor, refractor, semiconductor, stricter, subcontractor, superconductor, tractor, Victor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-l-l-o-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: collect. | |
-3 letters: collet, colter, cooler, cooter, lector, looter, ocelot, retool, toller, tooler. | |
-4 letters: cello, ceorl, cloot, color, cooer, recto, troll. | |
-5 letters: cell, celt, cero, clot, coco, cole, colt, cool, coot, core, cote, croc, loco, loot, lore, oleo, orle, role, roll, root, rote, rotl, roto, tell, tole, toll, tool, torc, tore, toro. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-l-l-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: collectors, colorectal. | |
+3 letters: noncollector, recollection. | |
+4 letters: collectorship, noncollectors, recollections. | |
+5 letters: collectorships. | |
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