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noun

a person or thing that receives.

a device or apparatus that receives electrical signals, waves, or the like, and renders them perceptible to the senses, as the part of a telephone held to the ear, a radio receiving set, or a television receiving set.

Law. a person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of a bankrupt business or person or to care for property in litigation.

Commerce. a person appointed to receive money due.

a person who knowingly receives stolen goods for an illegal purpose; a dealer in stolen merchandise.

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a device or apparatus for receiving or holding something; receptacle; container.

(in a firearm) the basic metal unit housing the action and to which the barrel and other components are attached.

Chemistry. a vessel for collecting and containing a distillate.

Football. a player on the offensive team who catches, is eligible to catch, or is noted for the ability to catch a forward pass: Jones was the receiver of the first pass thrown. He sent all his receivers downfield.

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Baseball. the catcher.

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Origin:
1300–50; 1875–80 for def. 2; receive + -er¹; replacing Middle English recevour < Anglo-French receivour, recevour (< Old French recevere)

Related forms

pre·re·ceiv·er, noun

un·der·re·ceiv·er, noun

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Receiver is always a great word to know.

So is pardon. Does it mean:

a release from the penalty of an offense; a remission of penalty, as by a governor; the document by which such remission is declared

an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act

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Example Sentences

What promised to be an interesting fight for the third receiver spot has never developed.

The perception of a threat is in the mind of the receiver and is real to the receiver.

Only by measuring in the correct polarisation basis can a receiver see which bit was sent-otherwise the result is meaningless.

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What promised to be an interesting fight for the third receiver spot has never developed.

The perception of a threat is in the mind of the receiver and is real to the receiver.

Only by measuring in the correct polarisation basis can a receiver see which bit was sent-otherwise the result is meaningless.

Simply trace your route and upload to your receiver.

The size of the circuitry needed inside a receiver has shrunk.

The receiver refused, offering to postpone the sale instead, but the farmers insisted that they go ahead.

The receiver can log, graph and even tweet that information.

It was a receiver who first spiked a football and a receiver who first thought to dance in the end zone.

Then the receiver lateraled the ball, and the recipient lateraled it again.

The idea of encryption is to make a message unreadable, except to the receiver.

PS10's operators have to limit the flux to avoid melting the receiver.

But by sending such a signal, you make your vector of origin known to the receiver.

Once deployed, they can put out enough power to be picked up on the ground by a hand-held amateur radio receiver.

Apparently she didn't even see me as an eligible receiver.

The receiver should be able to detect an eavesdropper and take appropriate countermeasures.

The waves that reflect back to the receiver indicate the object's distance.

The receiver in turn conveys the signals through a tiny cable to an electrode array placed on the retina.

It tells the receiver you use departmental supplies for non-departmental business.

In a mesh, each receiver of a signal also re-transmits it.

The ranger holding the receiver started to get excited-the signal was getting louder.

Paranormalists hear dead people speaking to them through a radio receiver.

The wireless mic speaks to a receiver which is hooked up to the portable audio recorder.

The disconnect between the receiver of medical services and the third-party payer is the main reason for high costs.

After trapping, tranquilizing and tagging various lions a satellite receiver pinpoints the cats' locations four times a day.

The receiver tells the sender whether all the diamonds have arrived or not.

The transmission of data is almost instant, regardless of where sender and receiver are.

Visualize a solar energy receiver about the sized of a home heat pump.

Of course, how the receiver of such pictures responds can dampen one's perception.

Unfortunately the plane's transponder communicates with secondary radar, not the primary receiver.

The capsules were propelled by air and whizzed along tubes from sender to receiver.

Another technique uses moveable mirrors to focus the sun's rays on a collector tower, where a receiver sits.

Very often the receiver will catch the ball moving to the center of the field and then have to accelerate towards the end zone.

Its latest accessory is a tiny phone receiver that you lift up to your ear to.

When you set your receiver to so many cycles per second, you tune the antenna circuit to pluck that.

Its simple and easy two-holed receiver design endured for.

Azden's low-cost wireless receiver pulls in the voices of two actors simultaneously.

Each module has a silicon transmitter and a receiver chip.

Greece should not leave the eu as it is the highest per capita net receiver of eu funds so it is a bad idea.

They happen at the speed and leisure of both the sender and the receiver.

Scientists couldn't aim the telescope's receiver at particular parts of the sky for about a month.

Carroll's cipher uses a tabula recta that is tied to a keyword only the sender and receiver would know.

Being the receiver of the foreign direct investment.

Remove the back of the sticker and place the red blaster on top of the infrared receiver on your digital converter box.

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World English Dictionary

receiver (rɪˈsiːvə)

—n
1.	a person who receives something; recipient
2.	a person appointed by a court to manage property pending the outcome of litigation, during the infancy of the owner, or after the owner(s) has been declared bankrupt or of unsound mind
3.	chiefly (Brit) a person who receives stolen goods knowing that they have been stolen
4.	the equipment in a telephone, radio, or television that receives incoming electrical signals or modulated radio waves and converts them into the original audio or video signals
5.	the part of a telephone containing the earpiece and mouthpiece that is held by the telephone user
6.	the equipment in a radar system, radio telescope, etc, that converts incoming radio signals into a useful form, usually displayed on the screen of a cathode-ray oscilloscope
7.	an obsolete word for receptacle
8.	chem a vessel in which the distillate is collected during distillation
9.	(US) sport a player whose function is to receive the ball, esp a footballer who catches long passes
10.	the metallic frame situated behind the breech of a gun to guide the round into the chamber

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receiver

(rĭ-sē'vər) Pronunciation Key
A device, as in a radio or telephone, that converts incoming radio, microwave, or electrical signals to a form, such as sound or light, that can be perceived by humans. Compare transmitter.

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