Crossword clues for collector
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collector \Col*lect"or\, n. [LL. collector one who collects: cf. F. collecteur.]
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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.
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A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
Volumes without the collector's own reflections.
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(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. One authorized to collect debts.
A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
--Todd.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "gatherer of taxes, etc.," from Anglo-French collectour "collector" (of money or taxes; Old French collector, Modern French collecteur), from Late Latin collector, agent noun from colligere (see collect). Fem. form collectress is attested from 1825.
Wiktionary
n. A person who or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
WordNet
n. a person who collects things [syn: aggregator]
a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) [syn: 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
Wikipedia
Collector(s) may refer to:
The Collector (Taneleer Tivan) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books, the character has been featured in nearly five decades of Marvel continuity.
The Collector appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, portrayed by Benicio del Toro, in a cameo in the mid-credits scene of 2013's Thor: The Dark World, and in 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy.
Collector is a 2011 Malayalam political action thriller directed by Anil C. Menon with Suresh Gopi in the lead. The film has Suresh Gopi playing the title role. The film is a socio political thriller that takes a look at the contemporary social scene in the state. The film got mixed to Positive responses from critics and was declared as hit at the box office. Tamil actor Rajeev played the villain.
The Collector (, Kollektor) is a 2016 Russian drama film written and directed by Alexey Krasovsky. The film stars Konstantin Khabensky in the title role, with Xenia Buravskaya, Polina Agureeva, Darya Moroz, Valentina Lukaschuk, Evgeny Stychkin, Kirill Pletnyov, Igor Zolotovitsky, Tatyana Lazareva, Alexander Tyutin, Marina Lisovets, Nikita Tyunin providing voices.
The film premiered at Kinotavr Film Festival in Sochi on June 2015. Collector received critical acclaim, particularly for Khabensky's performance. Khabensky won the Kinotaver Film Festival for Best Actor for his performance. The film also won the Kinotavr prize for best cinematography. On July 2012, during Karlovy Vary International Film Festival the film has won the Special Jury Prize.
Usage examples of "collector".
As a result, many of the Aldine publications are dedicated to Grolier, and one copy of every book was especially printed on vellum for this fas-tidious collector.
There were even several letters from wealthy collectors in Europe stating exactly what kind of Anasazi treasures they desired and the prices that they could pay for goods upon delivery to their countries.
In the flourishing sled dog community of Two Rivers, an enterprising collector of lost booties had an opportunity to try out all of these variations and decide for himself what sort suited his team.
Collectors, for example, those who are rich, sometimes collect exotic brands, much as Collectors on Earth might collect stamps or coins, populating their pleasure gardens not only with girls who are beautiful but diversely marked.
If the bronzes have half the quality of the terra cotta, collectors would quite literally kill for them.
The bunsen burner had a solid, well-crafted feel to it and, although it was not in the same class as a nineteenth-century brass microscope, Peace could imagine a trendy collector getting quite excited over it.
The Cavaliere Davila, a Neapolitan gentleman of gigantic stature and almost femininely gentle manners, a noted collector and connoisseur of majolica, gave his opinion on each article of importance.
Charles Cordier, a professional animal collector who worked for many zoos and museums, followed tracks of the Kakundakari in Zaire in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
I thought that perhaps the museum was deaccessioning the painting, and it made sense to me that the Caxtons were among the few collectors with the means to acquire it legitimately.
It would have required more courage or more foolhardihood than most men possess to face a ticket collector or a boat official in these circumstances.
Early in 1862 David was appointed collector of customs at San Francisco, and during the time he held that office he had a great deal to say about federal patronage within the state.
Yates wanted another Illinoisan whom Lincoln knew and respected to be appointed collector of the port of New Orleans.
Though he was entirely self-taught, never learned Latin, and had scant understanding of Linnaean classifications, he was a prize plant collector, with an uncanny knack for finding and recognizing unknown species.
His obituary described him as a millionaire, a traveller in Central America, and a collector of works of Mesoamerican art that were the envy of museums worldwide.
The heat and the acid would leach lead right into the tea, which is why Nordan Pottery no longer sold soup mugs and coffee cups except surreptitiously to collectors who knew better than to use them in daily life.