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receiver

/ɹəˈsi.vɚ/

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What does receiver mean?

noun

  1. A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
  2. A person who accepts stolen goods.
  3. A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
More meanings (11)

noun

  1. An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
  2. A person who attempts to return the serve.
  3. Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle.
  4. A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.
  5. The part of a firearm containing the action.
  6. Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such.
  7. The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece.
  8. 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.
  9. (historical) An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
  10. (historical) An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum.
  11. (historical) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
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IPA pronunciation

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This last vessel should also be supplied with a bent tube for conducting the combined vapors with a third vessel or receiver.
S. D. (Samuel Dwight) HumphreyAmerican Hand Book of the DaguerreotypeProject Gutenberg ebook #167
All that these young men had received from Bell and Watson was that part of the telephone that we call the receiver.
Herbert Newton CassonThe History of the TelephoneProject Gutenberg ebook #819
More book examples (3)
The operator puts the receiver to his ear and listens for the message, which the telephone renders audible in the Morse characters.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820
The scientific truth underlying the story is the well-known expedient of placing a shrivelled apple under the receiver of an air pump.
John M. (John Mackenzie) BaconThe Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial NavigationProject Gutenberg ebook #861
His receiver was an electro-magnet having an iron plate as an armature capable of vibrating under the attractions of the varying current.
John MunroHeroes of the TelegraphProject Gutenberg ebook #979