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Re: Misnomer: we are all Lego collectors!
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Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:28:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kirby Warden writes:
> well gee...you've successfully defined what a collector is. Now how about
> defining what it means to collect in the first place.
Again, from Dictionary.com:
col·lect1 (k-lkt)
v. col·lect·ed, col·lect·ing, col·lects
v. tr.
1. To bring together in a group or mass; gather.
2. To accumulate as a hobby or for study.
3. To call for and obtain payment of: collect taxes.
4. To recover control of: collect one's emotions.
5. To call for (someone); pick up: collected the children and drove home.
v. intr.
1. To come together in a group or mass; gather. See Synonyms at gather.
2. To take in payments or donations: collecting for charity.
adv. & adj.
With payment to be made by the receiver: called collect; a collect phone call.
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[Middle English collecten, from Latin colligere, collct- : com-, com- +
legere, to gather; see leg- in Indo-European Roots.]
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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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collect \Col*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collected; p. pr. & vb. n.
Collecting.] [L. collecrus, p. p. of collerige to bind together; col- +
legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See Legend, and cf. Coil, v. t., Cull,
v. t.] 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together;
to obtain by gathering.
A band of men Collected choicely from each country. --Shak.
'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and
industry daily collect. --Watts.
2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness;
as, to collect taxes.
3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.] --Shak.
Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. --Locke.
To collect one's self, to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to
regain self-control.
Syn: To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate; garner; aggregate;
amass; infer; deduce.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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collect \Col*lect"\, v. i. 1. To assemble together; as, the people collected
in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
2. To infer; to conclude. [Archaic]
Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
--South.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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collect \Col"lect\, n. [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money;
an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F. collecte. See Collect, v. t.] A short,
comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition,
and forming part of a liturgy.
The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse.
--Macaulay.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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collect adj : payment due by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call";
"the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn: cod] n : a short prayer
generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of
England adv : make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient
pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect" v 1: get together [syn:
accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard] 2: call for and obtain payment
of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts" [syn: take
in] 3: get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
[syn: gather, garner, pull together] [ant: spread] 4: get or bring together;
"accumulate evidence" [syn: accumulate, pull in] 5: gather or collect; "You
can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care
center" [syn: pick up, gather up, call for] 6: to assemble in proper
sequence; "collate the papers" [syn: collate] 7: move together [syn: gather,
congregate]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
Matt (who wouldn't be the Self-Proclaimed LUGNET King of Citing Stuff © if
he didn't rise to the challenge, right?)
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| (...) And this right here is my point of contention. My hobby is not to collect LEGO bricks. My hobby is Building. My collection is merely a side effect of the necessity for having LEGO bricks with which to build. You wouldn't call a home builder a (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| dude...you just suckered me into a debate! But that's ok, let's see if I can score a couple of points for myself... A collector is a person who collects... well gee...you've successfully defined what a collector is. Now how about defining what it (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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