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Collector

Collector Meaning & Definition
Collector Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Collector?

[n] the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
[n] a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
[n] a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
[n] a person who collects things

Synonyms | Synonyms for Collector: accumulator | aggregator | gatherer

Related Terms | Find terms related to Collector: accumulator | addict | admirer | amateur | arbiter | arbiter elegantiarum | arbiter of taste | aspirant | aspirer | authority | base | beg | beglerbeg | bey | bill collector | bon vivant | booster | buff | bug | burgrave | candidate | cognoscente | collection agent | connaisseur | connoisseur | coveter | critic | demon | desirer | devotee | dey | dilettante | douanier | dunner | eager beaver | emitter | energumen | enthusiast | eparch | epicure | epicurean | exarch | exciseman | expert | faddist | fan | fanatic | fancier | farmer | fiend | filamentary transistor | follower | freak | gatherer | gauleiter | germanium crystal triode | good judge | gourmand | gourmet | governor | governor-general | great one for | groupie | hankerer | hobbyist | hook-collector transistor | hopeful | hound | idolater | idolizer | infatuate | judge | khedive | lieutenant governor | lover | magpie | maven | miser | nabob | nawab | nut | pack rat | palatine | point-contact transistor | proconsul | provincial | pursuer | refined palate | rhapsodist | rooter | satrap | solicitant | spacistor | stadtholder | subahdar | sucker for | suitor | tax collector | tetrarch | tetrode transistor | transistor | unipolar transistor | vali | vice-king | viceroy | virtuoso | visionary | votary | wali | wanter | wisher | worshiper | yearner | zealot

See Also | archivist | bearer | coin collector | conchologist | conductor | crater | electrode | electronic transistor | Gardner | gleaner | holder | human | individual | Isabella Stewart Gardner | junction transistor | mortal | numismatist | numismatologist | person | philatelist | rent collector | somebody | someone | soul | stamp collector | transistor

Collector In Webster's Dictionary

\Col*lect"or\, n. [LL. collector one who collects: cf. F. collecteur.] 1. 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. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. --Lamb. 2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. Volumes without the collector's own reflections. --Addison. 3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. --Sir W. Temple. 4. One authorized to collect debts. 5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. --Todd.

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