collector
part of speech
noun (a collector, collectors)
meaning for a pupil
1) A collector is a person who collects things of one kind as a hobby, such as stamps, coins, cards or shells. tree →
2) A collector is a person whose job is to collect money or things, such as a tax collector, a ticket collector or a rubbish collector. tree →
3) In science and technology, a collector is a part that gathers something, such as a solar collector that gathers heat from the sun. tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories a collector is someone who keeps and treasures objects; in everyday life it names jobs that gather money or rubbish. In maths problems collectors often have a number of items that grow or shrink. Phrases: stamp collector, coin collector, debt collector, ticket collector, collector's item.
examples
- My uncle is a stamp collector with over two thousand stamps. tree →
- The ticket collector checked our tickets on the train. tree →
- A collector paid a lot of money for the old toy car. tree →
- The rubbish collectors come every Tuesday morning. tree →
- This rare card is a real collector's item. tree →
- A solar collector on the roof warms the water. tree →
- The coin collector has 48 coins and buys 12 more. tree →
- The lottery collector pressed me so hard that I thought I should crack. tree →
note
Countable: a collector, collectors. Spelling ends in «-or», not «-er». A «collector's item» is something rare that collectors want. In maths: «a collector has 48 cards and gets 12 more» means add (48 + 12 = 60); «sells» or «gives away» means subtract.
In the corpora
- "Sanitation engineer" is a joking or puffed-up name for a rubbish or garbage collector (US).
- Old coins and notes can stop being accepted in shops; some banks still swap them, and collectors may want rare ones.
- Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners and touched people with leprosy, whom others avoided.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «collector» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.