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Receiver   /rəsˈivər/  /rɪsˈivər/  /risˈivər/   Listen
Receiver

noun
1.
Set that receives radio or tv signals.  Synonym: receiving system.
2.
(law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties.  Synonym: liquidator.
3.
Earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds.  Synonym: telephone receiver.
4.
A person who receives something.  Synonym: recipient.
5.
The tennis player who receives the serve.
6.
A football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass.  Synonyms: pass catcher, pass receiver.



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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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