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Re: Misnomer: we are all Lego collectors!
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Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:43:04 GMT
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Thanks for the effort, but this is part of Lugnet's problem. We don't need
to be so specific, we don't need to define ourselves. We know what we do.
Let's be careful not allow a post to begin making us go crazy. Were into
Lego. Period. You want to go and get a dictionary....well your missing the
point.
BTW the dictionary thing was not aimed at you Mathew, but thanks for getting
us an official entry.
Remember people outside our Forum brought this up, let's not grill each
other about what "They" ment.....
Ok?
Peace and all that stuff......
Eric
In lugnet.castle, Matthew Gerber writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Kirby Warden writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Jimmy Park writes:
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> > > Just wanted to make sure the terminology is correct and we don't stigmatize
> > > the term collector,
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> > uh...if you really wanted to clarify a word, isn't it best to offer the
> > actual definition of that word?
> >
> > I can't seem to find my dictionary, but i did find my thesaurus and the
> > first word it uses to describe "collect" is "gather".
> >
> > It would seem to me that some of us "gather" lego to build with...
> >
> > ...some "gather" lego to place on a shelf...
> >
> > ...some "gather" lego to sell for profit...
>
> From Dictionary.com:
>
> col·lec·tor (k-lktr)
> n.
> 1. One that collects: a solar energy collector; a dust collector.
> 2. A person employed to collect taxes, duties, or other payments.
> 3. A person who makes a collection, as of stamps.
> 4. An electrode in an electron tube that collects electrons which have
> finished carrying current.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> col·lector·ship n.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> 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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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> collector \Col*lect"or\, n. [LL. collector one who collects: cf. F.
> collecteur.] 1. 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.
>
> I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty
> years a collector. --Lamb.
>
> 2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them
> together in one book.
>
> Volumes without the collector's own reflections. --Addison.
>
> 3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive
> customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
>
> A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other
> officers. --Sir W. Temple.
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> 4. One authorized to collect debts.
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> 5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some
> scholastic proceedings in Lent. --Todd.
>
> Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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>
> collector n 1: a person who collects things (e.g. stamps) as a hobby 2: a
> person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) [syn:
> gatherer, accumulator] 3: a crater that has collected cosmic material
> hitting the earth 4: the electrode in a transistor through which a primary
> flow of carriers leaves the inter-electrode region
>
> Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
>
> I find these most interesting:
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> -a dust collector (doesn't this describe a model sitting on a shelf to a 'T'?)
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> -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 (see, collector in the business sense)
>
> Matt (Self-Proclaimed LUGNET King of Citing Stuff©)
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| (...) <snip> (...) <snip> Sooooo, what are you saying...we should all remain ignorant and let somebody else define things for us? I was merely trying to correct the method that was being used to define a collector. To say that a collector is simply (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) From Dictionary.com: col·lec·tor (k-lktr) n. 1. One that collects: a solar energy collector; a dust collector. 2. A person employed to collect taxes, duties, or other payments. 3. A person who makes a collection, as of stamps. 4. An electrode (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle)
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