collectorn.
/kəˈlɛktə/, U.S. /kəˈlɛktər/ 1.
a. One who collects or gathers together; spec. one who gathers separate literary compositions, etc., into one book, a compiler (now rare or obsolete), one who collects scientific specimens, works of art, curiosities, etc. collector's or collectors' item, collector's piece, an item of interest to collectors because of its excellence, rarity, etc.; also transferred.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > compiling (a work) > one who
compilerc1330
gatherera1387
compilatorc1400
aggregator1528
collector1582
scissor man1826
scissorer1846
the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > [noun] > collector
collector1774
collectress1825
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > collecting and storing > collecting curiosities, etc. > one who
collector1774
bower-bird1926
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > rareness > something very rare
rare1566
rariety1566
black swan?1570
rarity1592
hen's milk1601
white Negro1631
rara avis1651
(one) in a million1685
collector's or collectors' item1910
lightning in a bottle1941
rare bird1962
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > collecting other articles > [noun] > article
collector's or collectors' item1910
collectable1955
1582 T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones Pref. To plaie the part of a faithfull collector by following my copies trulie.
a1679 J. Alting in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1874) IV. Ps. lxxxix. 52 Added by the Collector of the Psalms as a concluding doxology.
1762 R. Hurd Lett. Chivalry & Romance iv. 24 Thanks to the curiosity of certain painful collectors, this knowledge may be obtained at a cheaper rate.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 32 Every collector of butterflies can shew undescribed species.
1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. I. 441 Erasmus is usually considered as the first modern collector [of proverbs].
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxx. 408 The specimens [of walrus] in the museums of collectors.
1910 J. Yoxall ABC about Collecting 82 Shall one collect in order to have a complete set of examples, or only to have an incomplete lot of fine ‘collector's pieces’?
1928 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 625 Some swine would call your Blake a collector's piece.
1932 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 17 Jan. iv. 14/5 A charming fancy clothed in distinctive form, at a price, however, that puts the book in the class of collectors' items.
1937 R. Kipling Something of Myself iii. 67 It became a ‘collector's piece’ in the U.S. book-market.
1956 E. Grierson Second Man i. 9 Jaggers..was something of a collector's piece on the Circuit.
1967 J. Gardner Madrigal iii. 56 I'm not going to shoot up a thing like that. It's a bloody collector's item.
b. An official who collects the tickets at a railway station.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > ticket-collector
ticket-man1803
ticket-collector1850
ticket-clipper1884
collector1887
ticket chopper1898
1887 Times 19 Sept. 10/1 She saw the excursion [train] drawn up to let the collectors take the tickets.
c. Of things: An apparatus, vessel, etc., used for collecting something (variously applied in technical use). So collector ring, collector shoe (see quots. 19431, 19432).
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric charge, electricity > [noun] > apparatus for collection
collector1777
condenser1782
accumulator1879
capacitor1926
electrolytic1936
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > [noun] > conductor
conductor1745
collector1777
saddle1839
lead1881
neutral1890
N1937
the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > others
aludela1400
sublimatoryc1405
rotumbea1475
capel1527
firepot1595
digestory1676
digester1681
capsule1727
pneumatic trough1800
receiver1808
collector1860
cartridge1920
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > dynamo > [noun] > contact
brush1883
contact brush1884
slip ring1896
collector ring1909
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > conductor used in transport > [noun] > collection point
shoe1891
rail bond1893
slipper1900
collector shoe1940
1777 T. Cavallo Compl. Treat. Electr. 179 The prime conductor is set so, that the points of the collector are about half an inch from the surface of the cylinder.
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Collector, in electricity, is a small appendage to the prime conductor of the electrical machine, and generally consisting of pointed wires... Its office is to receive the electricity..from the excited electric.
1844 M. Faraday Exper. Res. Electr. I. §86 Conductors or electric collectors of copper and lead were constructed so as to come in contact with the edge of the copper disc.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ix. 62 This mighty tub is the collector of one of the tributaries of the Mer de Glace.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Collectors, the hairs found on the style of such plants as the Campanula, and which collect or brush out the pollen from the anthers.
1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 94 Models of Collectors..used in oyster culture.
1885 S. P. Thompson Elem. Lessons Electr. & Magn. 48 (Armstrong's Hydro-Electrical Machine) The collector consisted of a row of spikes placed in the path of the steam jets.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Collector ring.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 176/2 Collector shoe.
1943 Gloss. Terms Electr. Engin. (B.S.I.) 41 Slip ring, (collector ring), a conducting ring rotating with a winding and connected thereto, and serving to make connection with an external circuit by means of a brush or brushes.
1943 Gloss. Terms Electr. Engin. (B.S.I.) 109 Collector-shoe, a metal shoe for maintaining a sliding contact with a conductor-rail.
d. One of the three electrodes of a transistor (see quot. 1960).
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the world > matter > physics > solid state physics > semiconductivity > transistor > [noun] > electrode of
base1948
collector1948
source1952
1948 Physical Rev. 74 230/2 The flow of holes from the emitter into the collector may alter the normal current flow from the base to the collector.
1955 Electronic Engin. 27 121 The collector voltage appears as 91 mV.
1959 Electronic Engin. 31 330 The collector and emitter of the transistor are connected in series.
1960 N. M. Cooke & J. Markus Electronics & Nucleonics Dict. 83/1 Collector (symbol C), an electrode at which a primary flow of carriers leaves the interelectrode region of a transistor. It corresponds to the anode of a tube.
2. † b. A parish officer to collect alms for the poor.
a. One who collects money; an officer employed to collect or receive money due, as taxes, customs, etc. Also in U.S. an official Receiver.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > [noun] > exacting or collecting > collector of impost, due, or tax
tollerc1000
tolnerc1050
pernora1325
collectorc1380
receiverc1380
toll-gatherer1382
general receiver1400
coillor1420
collator1430
receiver general1439
subcollector1471
leviera1513
taker-up1548
publicana1563
under-receiver1579
Commissioner of Supply1686
c1380 Antecrist in R. B. Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 124 Take we heede..to bishopis, to colectors, to suffriganes.
a1450 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 452 Qwich messe peny & ferthing shal be resceyued be the colectour for the ȝere chosen.
1496–7 Act 12 Hen. VII c. 13 §1 The seid orderours and assessours..shall name Collectours for the levye of the same aide and subsidie.
a1593 H. Smith Serm. (1637) 437 The word passeth like a Collector from one member to another, to gather tribute for God.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Macc. i. 29 The king sent his chiefe collectour of tribute. View more context for this quotation
1689 London Gaz. No. 2428/4 Captain Robert Bathurst, Collector, and John Gilloway, Supervisor, of Excise.
1724 J. Swift Let. to Shop-keepers of Ireland (new ed.) 6 The Collectors of the King's Customs.
1794 R. Southey Wat Tyler 1 That..the foul Collector Durst with lewd hand seize on my darling child.
1885 Act 48 Vict. c. 16 §11 It shall not be lawful for any assessor..to be..a collector of poor rates.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > charitableness or alms-giving > charitable person or almsgiver > official
almonera1400
almaser1489
collector1564
1564 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation I. xli. 463 To every parish belongeth..two collectors, to gather for the poor.
1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 118/1 The poores neglector (O I pardon craue) Collector I should say, may play the knaue.
1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Dviiv The Collectours of the parishes.
1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 114 In aid of the churchwardens, collectors for the poor were next appointed.
1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 178 Few Parish Officers are of older date than Collectors.
c. An officer in some parts of England employed to make the returns of births, marriages, and burials. ? Obsolete.
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society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > registrar > of births, marriages, and deaths
collector1704
registrar1876
1704 Stockwith Parish Acc. For a warrant for new colectors for births, weddings, burials and window money.
3. In India, the chief adminstrative official of a zillah or district, whose special duty is the collection of revenue, but who also (except in Bengal) holds certain magisterial powers. (Yule.)
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society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > Indian
jamadar1763
zilladar1763
collector1772
talukdār1793
jagirdar1794
tehsildar1799
Mull1816
mulligatawny1816
babu1823
multi-membered1923
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > tax collection > [noun] > tax-collector
catchpoleOE
publicanc1175
tallagerc1400
leviera1513
vectigal1535
renter?1536
task-gatherer1552
exactor1570
uptaker1576
exacter1596
mise-gatherer1597
taxer1603
tax-taker1610
raiser1611
summonitor1617
summonisterc1625
riding officer1675
zamindar1683
tax-gatherer1693
desai1698
amildar1761
amil1763
collector1772
tax-master1796
tehsildar1799
taxman1803
tax-receiver1830
tax-collector1833
the taxes1874
revenuer1877
revenue1880
levyist1923
T-man1938
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > local or municipal taxes or dues > [noun] > other local or municipal dues or taxes > collector of > specifically in India
zilladar1763
collector1772
1772 Reg. of 14th May The Supervisors should now be designated Collectors.
1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. XI. 484 Warren Hastings..strongly objected to the appointment of any European collectors.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. xii. 520 The Collector was instructed to hear and decide disputes relating to the rents and possession of land, which had previously been cognizable by the civil judge alone.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) iv. 25 Such a magnificent personage as the Collector of Boggley Wollah.
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1655 A. Wood Life (1848) 61 He..appointed A. W. collector in Austins.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 9 Nov. (1885) I. 305 When Bach. of Arts he was Collector.
1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xlii. 232 The collectors (who are two in number) are chosen out of the determining batchelors by the two proctors, each proctor chusing one; and their business is to divide the determiners into certain Classes, and to appoint to every one what school he shall dispute in.
1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xlii. 233 The collectors therefore, having it in their power to dispose of all the schools and days in what manner they please, are very considerable persons, and great application is made to them for gracious days and good schools.
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