'Receiver' definitions:
Definition of 'receiver'
From: WordNet
noun
Set that receives radio or tv signals [syn: receiver, receiving system]
noun
(law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties [syn: liquidator, receiver]
noun
Earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds [syn: telephone receiver, receiver]
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A person who receives something [syn: recipient, receiver]
noun
The tennis player who receives the serve
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A football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass [syn: receiver, pass receiver, pass catcher]
Definition of 'Receiver'
From: GCIDE
- Receiver \Re*ceiv"er\ (r[-e]*s[=e]v"[~e]r), n. [Cf. F. receveur.]
- 1. One who takes or receives in any manner. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Pneumatics) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 7. That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Firearms) In portable breech-loading firearms, the steel frame screwed to the breech end of the barrel, which receives the bolt or block, gives means of securing for firing, facilitates loading, and holds the ejector, cut-off, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'receiver'
From: GCIDE
- electronic device \electronic device\ n. a device depending on the principles of electronics and using the manipulation of electron flow for its operation. [PJC]
- Note: Numerous electronic devices are in daily use, among them the television, radio, computer, robot, transmitter, receiver, VCR, CD player, etc. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'receiver'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accepter,
- accountant,
- acquirer,
- addressee,
- audience,
- auditor,
- beholder,
- believer,
- bookkeeper,
- bursar,
- cabinet,
- call box,
- cashier,
- cashkeeper,
- catechumen,
- chamberlain,
- chassis,
- Christian,
- churchgoer,
- churchite,
- churchman,
- closed-circuit telegraphy,
- code,
- coin telephone,
- communicant,
- comptroller,
- consignee,
- console,
- container,
- controller,
- convert,
- curator,
- daily communicant,
- depositary,
- depository,
- desk telephone,
- devotee,
- devotionalist,
- dial telephone,
- disciple,
- duplex telegraphy,
- electricity,
- extension,
- facsimile telegraph,
- fanatic,
- fence,
- financial officer,
- follower,
- getter,
- God-fearing man,
- good Christian,
- hearer,
- holder,
- housing,
- interrupter,
- key,
- liquidator,
- listener,
- looker,
- mouthpiece,
- multiplex telegraphy,
- neophyte,
- news ticker,
- obtainer,
- pay station,
- payee,
- paymaster,
- phone,
- pietist,
- procurer,
- proselyte,
- public telephone,
- purse bearer,
- quadruplex telegraphy,
- radio,
- radio receiver,
- radio set,
- radio telescope,
- railroad telegraphy,
- receiving set,
- receptacle,
- recipient,
- religionist,
- saint,
- sender,
- set,
- simplex telegraphy,
- single-current telegraphy,
- sounder,
- spectator,
- steward,
- stock ticker,
- submarine telegraphy,
- swagman,
- swagsman,
- taker,
- TelAutography,
- telegraphics,
- telegraphy,
- telephone,
- telephone booth,
- telephone engineering,
- telephone extension,
- telephone mechanics,
- telephone receiver,
- telephonics,
- telephony,
- teleprinter,
- Teletype,
- Teletype network,
- teletypewriter,
- teletypewriting,
- Teletyping,
- telex,
- theist,
- ticker,
- transmitter,
- treasurer,
- trustee,
- truster,
- typotelegraph,
- typotelegraphy,
- utensil,
- vessel,
- viewer,
- votary,
- wall telephone,
- wire service,
- wireless,
- wireless set,
- zealot
Words containing 'Receiver'
- Receivability,
- Receivable,
- Receivableness,
- Receive,
- Received,
- Receiving,
- receivables,
- Bills receivable,
- Exhausted receiver,
- Receiver's certificate,
- Receiving reservoir,
- Receiving ship,
- Value received,
- accounts receivable,
- heterodyne receiver,
- note receivable,
- pass receiver,
- radio receiver,
- received pronunciation,
- receiving note,
- receiving set,
- receiving system,
- satellite receiver,
- superheterodyne receiver,
- telephone receiver,
- television receiver,
- continuous receiver watch,
- earth-received time,
- receiver-creditor relation,
- The Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed