RECEIVER

receiver, receiving system

(noun) set that receives radio or tv signals

recipient, receiver

(noun) a person who receives something

liquidator, receiver

(noun) (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties

receiver, pass receiver, pass catcher

(noun) a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass

receiver

(noun) the tennis player who receives the serve

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

receiver (plural receivers)

A person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something. More formal, usually referring to one who receives such things as an award or medal.

Synonym: recipient

A trustee appointed to hold and administer property involved in litigation.

A person appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.

Synonyms: insolvency administrator, insolvency practitioner, liquidator, administrator, court administrator, trustee in bankruptcy

A tax collector.

A person who accepts stolen goods.

Any of several electronic devices that receive signals and convert them into sound or vision.

Antonym: transmitter

A telephone handset.

A smartphone earpiece.

(American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.

(tennis) A person who attempts to return the ball after it has been served.

An element of a mechanical or other system or device designed to accept another element.

(firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.

A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.

A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.

(chemistry) A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.

(chemistry) The glass vessel of an air pump in which the vacuum is formed.

(finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg.

Coordinate terms

• (electronic device that receives signals and converts them into sound or vision): transmitter-receiver, transceiver

Source: Wiktionary

Re*ceiv"er, n. Etym: [Cf. F. receveur.]

1. One who takes or receives in any manner.

2. (Law)

Definition: A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases. Bouvier.

3. One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen. Blackstone.

4. (Chem.) (a) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation. (b) A vessel for receiving and containing gases.

5. (Pneumatics)

Definition: The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump.

6. (Steam Engine) (a) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine. (b) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.

7. That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter. Exhausted receiver (Physics), a receiver, as that used with the air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel the interior of which is a more or less complete vacuum.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

RECEIVER

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