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/rəsˈivər/ /rɪsˈivər/ /risˈivər/ Listen

noun

Receiver n.

1.

One who takes or receives in any manner.

2.

(Law) 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.

(Chem.)

(a)

A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.

(b)

A vessel for receiving and containing gases.

5.

(Pneumatics) 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.

6.

(Steam Engine)

(a)

A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.

(b)

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.

8.

(Firearms) 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.

Exhausted receiver (Physics), a receiver, as that used with the air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel the interior of which is a more or less complete vacuum.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Receiver" Quotes from Famous Books

... principal or accessory. If, when the day of reckoning came, she could make it appear that she did not know the money had been stolen, she would escape the penalty and the odium of being a thief, or a receiver ...

— Hope and Have - or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People • Oliver Optic

... sad; and a general "Hark-from-the-tombs-a-doleful-sound" style of conversation seemed to be the fashion: a state of things which caused one coming from a merry, social New England town, to feel as if she had got into an exhausted receiver; and the instinct of self-preservation, to say nothing of a philanthropic desire to serve the race, caused a speedy change ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner

... up the receiver and rang again. This time she called the bank, asking for the president. "Is this Mr. Furlow?" she said. "This is Grace Harlowe. I am at the office of Mr. Henry Hammond, who is about to write my father a check for five hundred dollars, which he wishes to cash before the bank closes. ...

— Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School - or The Parting of the Ways • Jessie Graham Flower

... the King and Queen on May 7, 1493, appointed Gomez Tello to go with Columbus on the second voyage to act as receiver of the royal dues, Thacher argues strongly, on the ground that this recommendation presumably antedates the appointment of a treasurer, that this letter of Columbus's was written earlier than May ...

— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various

... of the hammock where he had been swinging up and down on the cool front porch of his little house in Bunnytown, corner of Lettuce avenue and Carrot street, and hopped into the library and took down the receiver and said "Helloa! This ...

— Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog • David Magie Cory

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