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collector

noun
/kəˈlɛk.tɚ/US/kəˈlɛk.tə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).

  1. derived from colligō — “to gather together”
  2. derived from collēctor
  3. derived from collectour
  4. inherited from collectour

Definitions

  1. A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

    • She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
    • That old piano is just a big dust collector.

  2. A person who is employed to collect payments.

    • 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

  3. The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A compiler of books

      A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.

      • Volumes[…] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.

    2. One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some…

      One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

      • Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts

    3. A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.

    4. A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, Upper Lachlan council area and the…

      A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, Upper Lachlan council area and the Yass Valley council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at collector. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at collector. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at collector

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA