(n.) 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.
(n.) A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
(n.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
(n.) One authorized to collect debts.
(n.) A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conventional lymphography still yields the best results in differentiating between primary lymphedema with aplasia of the aorto-iliac collectors and a secondary form due to neoplastic disease.
(2) It’s an additional income but it’s also a financial safeguard.” Rosby Mthinda, who has worked with Dohse for more than a decade and now trains collectors in her role as field assistant, says the baobab trade is paying dividends for people and the environment.
(3) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
(4) He tried to question the ability of the collector when he was caught red-handed.
(5) The source of these nitrates was probably water incompletely removed after washing and rinsing of collector containers.
(6) The curator Clare Browne has a certain sympathy for Bock – “he was a serious collector, and he saved many pieces which would otherwise certainly have been destroyed” – but even she is startled that he ran his scissors straight through the figure of Christ, sparing only the face, which ended up in the V&A’s half.
(7) That is a very, very strong lever for creating an understanding of the threat of losing resources.” As well as protecting the forests, the money from TreeCrops provides collectors with an additional income to the cash they usually earn through farming.
(8) These cells were continuous with stained cells adjacent to the outer wall of Schlemm's canal and to the collector channels.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Animal collector Carl Hagenbeck with his sons and a Bengal tiger, 1907.
(10) To examine how mimicry was influenced by a person's power and the status of those around them, Carr asked 55 volunteers to watch videos of high-status people (such as a doctor or business leader) or low-status people (a worker in a fast food restaurant, say, or a rubbish collector) either being happy or angry.
(11) Three AERAS low pressure 11 stage cascade impactors with rotatable collecting plates (LPCR) were installed at the Duchesnay forest station near Québec City and four low pressure inertial collectors (LPIC) were installed in the forest.
(12) Skinflints and mixtape collectors are taking on the world's vinyl fetishists with the arrival of the first-ever Cassette Store Day.
(13) More work in the areas of automated data collection systems or use of communication partners as data collectors is required before claiming that accurate communication interactions can be recorded in natural settings.
(14) There’s no way short of a revolution that the rich super collectors can be persuaded to show their work publicly against their will; a revolution, or a generous tax incentive.
(15) After intense negotiations, Gurlitt's lawyers agreed last month to a deal with the German government under which the works would be returned to the collector, while allowing a taskforce to examine them for another year to establish the identity of their rightful owners.
(16) Blood temperature measured at 10 sec intervals and pacing rate measured at 1 min intervals were telemetered to a diagnostic programmer and data collector for storage and transfer to a computer.
(17) Gurlitt's spokesperson, Stephan Holzinger, said in a tweet that it would be up to a probate court to decide if the collector had left behind a valid will or testamentary contract – a surprising statement considering Gurlitt's lawyers had been aware of his illness and might have been expected to help him prepare for his death.
(18) In 2003 Dos Santos married Sindika Dokolo, Congolese art collector the son of the tycoon Sanu Dokolo, founder of Bank of Kinshasa.
(19) Sixty-six records (approximately two per physician) were reviewed; physician interviews were conducted by two trained data collectors who were blinded to each other's results.
(20) The box containing the IDs of all the collectors required to verify each page of signatures, was illegally opened by the CNE without our presence and the IDs of many signature collectors have mysteriously disappeared," said Josephine Koch, an activist working with the alliance.
Philologist
Definition:
(n.) One versed in philology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jaramillo – a philosopher, philologist and diplomat – oozes courtesy and severity; he studied at both Oxford and Cambridge, he explains, “in order to get out and move on”.
(2) The interacademical project "Corpus Medicorum Graecorum", started in 1907 in Berlin, reflects the evolution of the classical philologists' approach to ancient medicine.
(3) Sudhoff's views of the tasks of medical historians in the field of the history of ancient medicine were influenced by the contemporary controversy between classical philologists and medical historians about their competence.
(4) I must mention too the supremely creative contribution of Giambattista Vico, the Neapolitan philosopher and philologist whose ideas anticipate those of German thinkers such as Herder and Wolf, later to be followed by Goethe, Humboldt, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Gadamer, and finally the great 20th-century Romance philologists Erich Auerbach, Leo Spitzer, and Ernst Robert Curtius.
(5) His headteacher had high hopes that he might become a philologist and Latin scholar.
(6) Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw were born in Warsaw, sons of Rajmund Kaczynski, an engineer and a member of the Polish resistance during the second world war, and his wife Jadwiga, a philologist.