receiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈsi.vɚ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsiː.və/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: receivers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English receyvour, from Anglo-Norman receverre, receivour et al., later also reformed as receive + -er. Compare recevor, rescaivour.
Senses: glosses: A person who receives.
An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
examples: text: I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.
ref: 1850, Charles Dickens, “The Begging-Letter Writer”, in Household Words:
glosses: A person who receives.
A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
glosses: A person who receives.
A person who accepts stolen goods.
examples: text: It took the name Midland & South Western Junction in 1884 and reached Cheltenham, with its M.R. connection, in 1891; but poverty continued - a receiver had been appointed in 1884.
ref: 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 585:
glosses: A person who receives.
A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
synonyms: insolvency administrator
insolvency practitioner
liquidator
administrator
court administrator
trustee in bankruptcy
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person who receives.
An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
racquet-sports
sports
glosses: A person who receives.
A person who attempts to return the serve.
glosses: An item or apparatus that receives.
Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An item or apparatus that receives.
A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.
examples: text: A man can live in thick air, but perishes in an exhausted receiver.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 839:
glosses: An item or apparatus that receives.
An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An item or apparatus that receives.
The part of a firearm containing the action.
glosses: An item or apparatus that receives.
A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
examples: text: The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.
ref: 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)
glosses: An item or apparatus that receives.
Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such.
antonyms: transmitter
examples: text: There they waited until after eleven, then Paulvitch took down the receiver of their telephone. He called a number.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Plot That Failed”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 60:
glosses: An item or apparatus that receives.
The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece.
topics: business
finance
glosses: An item or apparatus that receives.
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: sense: electronic device that receives signals and converts them into sound or vision
word: transmitter-receiver
sense: electronic device that receives signals and converts them into sound or vision
word: transceiver
Derived terms: Ader receiver
cat's whisker receiver
crystal radio receiver
exhausted receiver
first receiver
GPS receiver
rake receiver
RAKE receiver
receiver-general
receiverless
receivership
spoon receiver
superheterodyne receiver
supersonic heterodyne receiver
watch receiver
wide receiver