Associations to the word «Receiver»

Wiktionary

RECEIVER, noun. A person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something.
RECEIVER, noun. A trustee appointed to hold and administer property involved in litigation.
RECEIVER, noun. A person appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
RECEIVER, noun. A person who accepts stolen goods.
RECEIVER, noun. Any of several electronic devices that receive signals and convert them into sound or vision.
RECEIVER, noun. A telephone handset.
RECEIVER, noun. (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
RECEIVER, noun. (tennis) A person who attempts to return the ball after it has been served.
RECEIVER, noun. An element of a mechanical or other system or device designed to accept another element.
RECEIVER, noun. (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.
RECEIVER, noun. A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
RECEIVER, noun. A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.

Dictionary definition

RECEIVER, noun. Set that receives radio or tv signals.
RECEIVER, noun. (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties.
RECEIVER, noun. Earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds.
RECEIVER, noun. A person who receives something.
RECEIVER, noun. The tennis player who receives the serve.
RECEIVER, noun. A football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats