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Collector

noun

A person who collects things. Synonym: aggregator.

A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes). Synonyms: accumulator, gatherer.

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.

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"Collector" Quotes from Famous Books

... General Arthur successfully engaged in the practice of law in New York. November 20th, 1871, he was appointed collector of the port of New York, and re-appointed in 1875. The second appointment was confirmed by the Senate without reference to a committee, the usual course, the fact being highly complimentary, and testifying to the high opinion held by the Senate regarding his official record. He was suspended ...

— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis

... a collector, on a very small scale of course, and my mother had a passion for hoarding which prevented anything from going out of this house after it had once come into it,—and a great many strange things have come into it. There have even been bets made as to the finding or ...

— Dark Hollow • Anna Katharine Green

... music lover who acquaints himself with the opinions of the different masters of the keyboard can not fail to have a very clear insight into the best contemporary ideas upon technic, interpretation, style and expression. The author—or shall he call himself a collector?—believes that the use of the questions following each chapter will be found practical and useful in the work of both clubs and classes. Practice, however, is still more important than precept. The student might easily learn this book "by heart" and yet be ...

— Great Pianists on Piano Playing • James Francis Cooke

... and energetic members was the late Mr. Charles Pittar, a well-known and much-respected solicitor of the High Court, and the father of Mrs. George Girard, the wife of our genial Collector of Income-Tax. He was on all occasions well to the front, and the services he rendered to the society on many momentous occasions were invaluable, more especially in "London Assurance," to which I have previously alluded. In fact, it is not too much to say that without him it would ...

— Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century • Montague Massey

... the greatest interest the experiment has excited, not only among naturalists throughout the country, but also among landlords and sportsmen down in Essex, where the bird was not regarded merely as fair game to be bagged, or as a curiosity to be shot for the collector's cabinet, but was allowed to fight its own fight without counting man among its enemies. And it is to be expected that the same self-restraint and spirit of fairness and intelligent desire to see a favourable result would be shown everywhere if ...

— Birds in Town and Village • W. H. Hudson

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