receiver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: American-football
ball-games
business
chemistry
engineering
finance
firearms
football
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
racquet-sports
sports
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English receyvour, from Anglo-Norman receverre, receivour et al., later also reformed as receive + -er. Compare recevor, rescaivour.
Base: receive
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: receivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who receives.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A person who receives.
pos: noun
examples: I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.
gloss: A person who receives.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who receives.
pos: noun
examples: This was the West Lancashire Railway, an ambitious but feckless little concern which, in a life lasting a quarter of a century, never earned a dividend, failed to keep up its debenture payments (despite a dangerous attempt to do so by issuing more debentures) and ended up in the hands of a receiver.
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.
gloss: A person who receives.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who receives.
pos: noun
gloss: An item or apparatus that receives.
pos: noun
gloss: An item or apparatus that receives.
pos: noun
gloss: An item or apparatus that receives.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: A man can live in thick air, but perishes in an exhausted receiver.
gloss: An item or apparatus that receives.
pos: noun
gloss: An item or apparatus that receives.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An item or apparatus that receives.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An item or apparatus that receives.
pos: noun
examples: There they waited until after eleven, then Paulvitch took down the receiver of their telephone. He called a number.
gloss: An item or apparatus that receives.
pos: noun
Derived words: Ader receiver
cat's whisker receiver
crystal radio receiver
exhausted receiver
first receiver
GPS receiver
multireceiver
phosphoreceiver
photoreceiver
RAKE receiver
rake receiver
receiver-general
receiverless
receivership
spoon receiver
superheterodyne receiver
supersonic heterodyne receiver
telereceiver
television receiver
watch receiver
wide receiver
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: ontvanger
lang: Albanian
word: marrës
lang: Albanian
word: marrëse
lang: Arabic
word: مُسْتَلِم
roman: mustalim
lang: Arabic
word: مُسْتَلِمَة
roman: mustalima
lang: Armenian
word: ստացող
roman: stacʻoġ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: alıcı
lang: Belarusian
word: атрыма́льнік
roman: atrymálʹnik
lang: Belarusian
word: атрыма́льніца
roman: atrymálʹnica
lang: Belarusian
word: атрыма́ч
roman: atrymáč
lang: Belarusian
word: атрыма́чка
roman: atrymáčka
lang: Bulgarian
word: получа́тел
roman: polučátel
lang: Bulgarian
word: получа́телка
roman: polučátelka
lang: Burmese
word: လက်ခံသူ
roman: lakhkamsu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 收件人
roman: shōujiànrén
lang: Czech
word: příjemce
lang: Czech
word: příjemkyně
lang: Czech
word: adresát
lang: Czech
word: adresátka
lang: Danish
word: modtager
lang: Dutch
word: ontvanger
lang: Dutch
word: ontvangster
lang: Estonian
word: saaja
lang: Finnish
word: vastaanottaja
lang: Finnish
word: saaja
lang: French
word: destinataire
lang: Georgian
word: მიმღები
roman: mimɣebi
lang: German
word: Empfänger
lang: German
word: Empfängerin
lang: Greek
word: αποδέκτης
roman: apodéktis
lang: Greek
word: παραλήπτης
roman: paralíptis
lang: Hindi
word: प्राप्तकर्ता
roman: prāptakartā
lang: Hindi
word: लाभार्थी
roman: lābhārthī
lang: Hindi
word: आदाता
roman: ādātā
lang: Hindi
word: ग्रहीता
roman: grahītā
lang: Hungarian
word: átvevő
lang: Hungarian
word: címzett
lang: Hungarian
word: fogadó fél
lang: Icelandic
word: móttakandi
lang: Indonesian
word: penerima
lang: Japanese
word: 受取人
roman: uketorinin
lang: Kazakh
word: алушы
roman: aluşy
lang: Kazakh
word: қабылдаушы
roman: qabyldauşy
lang: Khmer
word: អ្នកទទួល
roman: nĕək tɔɔtɔtuəl
lang: Korean
word: 수취인
roman: suchwiin
lang: Korean
word: 받는 사람
roman: banneun saram
lang: Korean
word: 수신인
roman: susinin
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: wergir
lang: Kyrgyz
word: алуучу
roman: aluucu
lang: Lao
word: ຜູ້ຮັບ
roman: phū hap
lang: Latvian
word: saņēmējs
lang: Latvian
word: saņēmēja
lang: Lithuanian
word: gavėjas
lang: Lithuanian
word: gavėja
lang: Macedonian
word: примател
roman: primatel
lang: Macedonian
word: примателка
roman: primatelka
lang: Macedonian
word: примач
roman: primač
lang: Macedonian
word: примачка
roman: primačka
lang: Malay
word: penerima
lang: Middle English
word: receyvour
lang: Mongolian
word: хүлээн авагч
roman: xüleen avagč
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: mottaker
lang: Iranian Persian
word: گیرَنْدِه
roman: girande
lang: Polish
word: odbiorca
lang: Polish
word: odbiorczyni
lang: Polish
word: biorca
lang: Portuguese
word: destinatário
lang: Portuguese
word: recebedor
lang: Romanian
word: destinatar
lang: Romanian
word: destinatară
lang: Russian
word: получа́тель
roman: polučátelʹ
lang: Russian
word: получа́тельница
roman: polučátelʹnica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prìmatelj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: primatèljica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: прѝматељ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: приматѐљица
lang: Slovak
word: príjemca
lang: Slovak
word: príjemkyňa
lang: Slovene
word: prejemnik
lang: Slovene
word: prejemnica
lang: Spanish
word: destinatario
lang: Spanish
word: recibidor
lang: Swedish
word: mottagare
lang: Tajik
word: гиранда
roman: giranda
lang: Tatar
word: алучы
roman: aluçı
lang: Thai
word: ผู้รับ
roman: pûu-ráp
lang: Turkish
word: alıcı
lang: Turkmen
word: alyjy
lang: Ukrainian
word: оде́ржувач
roman: odéržuvač
lang: Ukrainian
word: оде́ржувачка
roman: odéržuvačka
lang: Urdu
word: وُصُول کُنِنْدَہ
roman: vusūl kuninda
lang: Uzbek
word: oluvchi
lang: Vietnamese
word: người nhận
lang: Finnish
word: selvitysmies
lang: Hungarian
word: vagyonkezelő
lang: Hungarian
word: gondnok
lang: Hungarian
word: meghatalmazott
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qəbuledici
lang: Belarusian
word: прыёмнік
roman: pryjómnik
lang: Bulgarian
word: прие́мник
roman: priémnik
lang: Czech
word: přijímač
lang: Danish
word: modtager
lang: Finnish
word: vastaanotin
lang: Hungarian
word: rádióvevő
lang: Māori
word: kawereo
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: примач
roman: primač
lang: Polish
word: odbiornik
lang: Russian
word: приёмник
roman: prijómnik
lang: Slovak
word: prijímač
lang: Thai
word: เครื่องรับวิทยุ
lang: Ukrainian
word: прийма́ч
roman: pryjmáč
lang: Uzbek
word: priyomnik
lang: Vietnamese
word: máy thu thanh
lang: Bulgarian
word: посреща́ч
roman: posreštáč
lang: Finnish
word: vastaanottaja