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Receiver   /rəsˈivər/  /rɪsˈivər/  /risˈivər/   Listen
noun
Receiver  n.  
1.
One who takes or receives in any manner.
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.
3.
One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
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) 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.
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.
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.
Exhausted receiver (Physics), a receiver, as that used with the air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel the interior of which is a more or less complete vacuum.






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"Receiver" Quotes from Famous Books



... was on, and I kept the running chatter up through the mike in the helmet, relaying to the ship's transmitter. The scene in the monitor receiver changed. ...
— The Misplaced Battleship • Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)

... the receiver of them were not vile in himself, nothing would give the benefactor ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley

... of my voice, as I dropped the receiver, seemed to part the mists of five years and usher me into the world of Then as though ...
— Friday, the Thirteenth • Thomas W. Lawson

... frequently out of gear, and when that instrument in addition is more than a trifle wilful and tainted with selfishness. Inspiration is ever ready, it floats around us like tuned wireless vibrations waiting to be picked up by a sympathetic receiver. Yet so few receivers, being but human after all, are sensitive enough and sufficiently delicate in in their poise to catch the floating news: and so the harvest is plenteous but those who ...
— Spirit and Music • H. Ernest Hunt

... expect you with the document and the minister at six, then," said Kate, and hung up the receiver. ...
— A Daughter of the Land • Gene Stratton-Porter


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