collector : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: collector	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for collector
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
collector n a person who collects things [syn: collector, aggregator] a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) Synonym(s): collector, gatherer, accumulator a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Collector \Collect"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.