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RECEIVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Set that receives radio or tv signals
Synonyms:
receiver; receiving system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("receiver" is a kind of...):
set (any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals)
Meronyms (parts of "receiver"):
aerial; antenna; transmitting aerial (an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals)
radio chassis (a chassis for a radio receiver)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "receiver"):
direction finder (radio; determines the direction of incoming radio waves)
radio; radio receiver; radio set; receiving set; tuner; wireless (an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals)
satellite receiver (a receiver on a communications satellite)
boob tube; goggle box; idiot box; television; television receiver; television set; telly; tv; tv set (an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen)
Derivation:
receive (convert into sounds or pictures)
receive (register (perceptual input))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds
Synonyms:
receiver; telephone receiver
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("receiver" is a kind of...):
earphone; earpiece; headphone; phone (electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "receiver"):
headset (receiver consisting of a pair of headphones)
Holonyms ("receiver" is a part of...):
phone; telephone; telephone set (electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person who receives something
Synonyms:
receiver; recipient
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("receiver" is a kind of...):
acquirer (a person who acquires something (usually permanently))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "receiver"):
warrantee (a recipient of a warrant issued by a court in the United States)
transferee ((law) someone to whom a title or property is conveyed)
sendee (the intended recipient of a message)
protege (a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career)
payee (a person to whom money is paid)
mandatary; mandatory (the recipient of a mandate)
host ((medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor)
honoree (a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments)
heir; heritor; inheritor (a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another)
grantee (a recipient of a grant)
dependant; dependent (a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support))
consignee (the person to whom merchandise is delivered over)
conferee (a person on whom something is bestowed)
borrower (someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent)
beneficiary; donee (the recipient of funds or other benefits)
assignee ((law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred))
annuitant (the recipient of an annuity)
alienee; grantee (someone to whom the title of property is transferred)
addressee (one to whom something is addressed)
Derivation:
receive (get something; come into possession of)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
Synonyms:
liquidator; receiver
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("receiver" is a kind of...):
fiduciary (a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Derivation:
receivership (the office of a receiver)
receivership (a court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of all)
receivership (the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass
Synonyms:
pass catcher; pass receiver; receiver
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("receiver" is a kind of...):
football player; footballer (an athlete who plays American football)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The tennis player who receives the serve
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("receiver" is a kind of...):
tennis player (an athlete who plays tennis)
Context examples:
This measurement utilizes the strange behavior of quantum physics, which simultaneously collapses the entanglement link and transfers the particle state to another particle already on the receiver chip.
(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Despite being less accurate than scientific-grade equipment, the GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers in a smartphone can detect the permanent ground movement (displacement) caused by fault motion in a large earthquake.
(Crowdsourced Smartphone Data Could Give Advance Notice for People in Quake Zones, JPL)
But, said Traddles, the surplus that would be left as his means of support—and I suppose the house to be sold, even in saying this—would be so small, not exceeding in all probability some hundreds of pounds, that perhaps, Miss Wickfield, it would be best to consider whether he might not retain his agency of the estate to which he has so long been receiver.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
That brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. ‘Why, dash it all!’ said he, ‘I’ve let them go at six hundred for the three!’ I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A small wireless radio receiver designed to be carried by a person, to give an indication when activated by the reception of a radio signal containing its specific code, and to display a short messages in a text-only format.
(Pager, NCI Thesaurus)
As a matter of ethics isn't the man who gives a bribe as bad as the man who takes a bribe? The receiver is as bad as the thief, you know; and you needn't console yourself with any fictitious moral superiority concerning this little deal.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
His hand trembled as he hung up the receiver, and he was weak from the organ which had stirred him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
That these meshes; beginning with alarming and falsified accounts of the estate of which Mr. W. is the receiver, at a period when Mr. W. had launched into imprudent and ill-judged speculations, and may not have had the money, for which he was morally and legally responsible, in hand; going on with pretended borrowings of money at enormous interest, really coming from—HEEP—and by—HEEP—fraudulently obtained or withheld from Mr. W. himself, on pretence of such speculations or otherwise; perpetuated by a miscellaneous catalogue of unscrupulous chicaneries—gradually thickened, until the unhappy Mr. W. could see no world beyond.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I didn't hear the rest of the name because I hung up the receiver.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
They stood side by side examining it. I was going to ask to see the rubies when the phone rang and Gatsby took up the receiver.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
