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A person who or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
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A person who is employed to collect payments.
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(electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
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(historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun collector
is a person who or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.collector
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(wikipedia collector)Alternative forms
* collectour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
- That old piano is just a big dust collector .
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- She works for the government as a tax collector .
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- Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector , and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.
- Volumes without the collector's own reflections.
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Derived terms
* stamp collectorfalse
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Adjective
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