collector vs messenger

collector

noun
  • A person who is employed to collect payments. 

  • One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. 

  • A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers 

  • A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection. 

  • A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses 

  • The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor. 

  • A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. 

messenger

noun
  • One who brings messages. 

  • A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier. 

  • The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data). 

  • A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike. 

  • A messenger-at-arms. 

  • An instant messenger program. 

  • A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle. 

  • A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite. 

  • The secretary bird. 

  • A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent. 

  • A forerunner. 

  • A light scudding cloud preceding a storm. 

verb
  • To send something by messenger. 

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