| collector | | |
| n. (person) | 1. aggregator, collector | a person who collects things. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ archivist | a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives. |
| ~ conchologist | a collector and student of mollusc shells. |
| ~ coin collector, numismatist, numismatologist | a collector and student of money (and coins in particular). |
| ~ packrat | a collector of miscellaneous useless objects. |
| ~ philatelist, stamp collector | a collector and student of postage stamps. |
| n. (person) | 2. accumulator, collector, gatherer | a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes). |
| ~ worker | a person who works at a specific occupation.; "he is a good worker" |
| ~ conductor | the person who collects fares on a public conveyance. |
| ~ gleaner | someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully. |
| ~ rent collector | a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner. |
| ~ gardner, isabella stewart gardner | United States collector and patron of art who built a museum in Boston to house her collection and opened it to the public in 1903 (1840-1924). |
| ~ revenue enhancement, tax, taxation | charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government. |
| n. (object) | 3. collector | a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth. |
| ~ crater | a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. collector | the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes. |
| ~ electrode | a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit. |
| ~ electronic transistor, junction transistor, transistor | a semiconductor device capable of amplification. |
| collect | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. collect | a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England. |
| ~ orison, petition, prayer | reverent petition to a deity. |
| v. (possession) | 2. accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up | get or gather together.; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" |
| ~ run up | pile up (debts or scores). |
| ~ corral | collect or gather.; "corralling votes for an election" |
| ~ collect, pull in | get or bring together.; "accumulate evidence" |
| ~ scrape up, scrape, scratch, come up | gather (money or other resources) together over time.; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living" |
| ~ chunk, lump | put together indiscriminately.; "lump together all the applicants" |
| ~ bale | make into a bale.; "bale hay" |
| ~ catch | take in and retain.; "We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater" |
| ~ fund | accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability.; "fund a medical care plan" |
| ~ fund | place or store up in a fund for accumulation. |
| ~ hive away, lay in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store, put in | keep or lay aside for future use.; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat" |
| v. (possession) | 3. collect, take in | call for and obtain payment of.; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent" |
| ~ take | take into one's possession.; "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks" |
| ~ farm | collect fees or profits. |
| ~ raise | collect funds for a specific purpose.; "The President raised several million dollars for his college" |
| v. (contact) | 4. collect, garner, gather, pull together | assemble or get together.; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" |
| ~ mobilize, marshal, mobilise, summon | make ready for action or use.; "marshal resources" |
| ~ rake | gather with a rake.; "rake leaves" |
| ~ glean, harvest, reap | gather, as of natural products.; "harvest the grapes" |
| ~ club | gather into a club-like mass.; "club hair" |
| ~ hive | gather into a hive.; "The beekeeper hived the swarm" |
| ~ salvage, scavenge | collect discarded or refused material.; "She scavenged the garbage cans for food" |
| ~ muster, muster up, rally, summon, come up | gather or bring together.; "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage" |
| ~ round up | seek out and bring together.; "round up some loyal followers" |
| ~ cull, pick, pluck | look for and gather.; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" |
| ~ nut | gather nuts. |
| ~ snail | gather snails.; "We went snailing in the summer" |
| ~ bird-nest, birdnest | gather birdnests.; "They went birdnesting in the early morning" |
| ~ nest | gather nests. |
| ~ oyster | gather oysters, dig oysters. |
| ~ sponge | gather sponges, in the ocean. |
| ~ pearl | gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean. |
| ~ clam | gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean. |
| ~ shock | collect or gather into shocks.; "shock grain" |
| ~ heap up, stack up, pile up | arrange into piles or stacks.; "She piled up her books in my living room" |
| v. (contact) | 5. collect, pull in | get or bring together.; "accumulate evidence" |
| ~ archive, file away | put into an archive. |
| ~ drum up, rally, beat up | gather.; "drum up support" |
| ~ accumulate, collect, compile, amass, hoard, roll up, pile up | get or gather together.; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" |
| v. (possession) | 6. call for, collect, gather up, pick up | gather or collect.; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week" |
| ~ acquire, get | come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" |
| adj. | 7. cod, collect | payable by the recipient on delivery.; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" |
| ~ due | owed and payable immediately or on demand.; "payment is due" |
| adv. | 8. collect | make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays.; "call collect"; "send a package collect" |
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