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Definition of Receiver

1. Noun. Set that receives radio or tv signals.

2. Noun. (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties.

3. Noun. Earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds.

4. Noun. A person who receives something.

5. Noun. The tennis player who receives the serve.

6. Noun. A football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass.

Definition of Receiver

1. n. One who takes or receives in any manner.

2. n. 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.

Definition of Receiver

1. Noun. A person who receives something. ¹

2. Noun. A person who acts as trustee for a bankrupt. ¹

3. Noun. A person who accepts stolen goods. ¹

4. Noun. A telephone handset. ¹

5. Noun. (football) A person who accepts the ball after it has been passed. ¹

6. Noun. (tennis) A person who attempts to return the ball after it has been served. ¹

7. Noun. Any of several electronic devices that receives signals and converts them into sound or vision ¹

8. Noun. A court administrator ¹

9. Noun. (context: firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Receiver

1. one that receives [n -S] - See also: receives

Medical Definition of Receiver

1. 1. One who takes or receives in any manner. 2. 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. A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation. A vessel for receiving and containing gases. 5. 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, and 6. A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine. 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. Exhausted receiver, 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. Origin: Cf. F. Receveur. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Receiver

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Literary usage of Receiver

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The defense in the case rests upon the effect of the decree dismissing the bill in respect to the past acts of the receiver, in the collection of the debts ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
""Raymond E. Kerr, Special receiver, "Morgantown & Wheeling Railway Co." The averments of the declaration so describing and setting out the instrument are ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1921)
"As an order denying an application to require a receiver appointed by the District Court to turn over property in his custody to the receiver appointed by a ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Several forms of receiver (hand telephone) employing wood for the containing ... Thus far the receiver had one pole-piece and coil placed on the end of a ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"3910, be directed to pay the funds belonging to said cause to the said defendants, McDonald and White, or order, and thereon said receiver shall be ..."

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