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Exhausted receiver (Physics), a receiver, as that used with the air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel the interior of which is a more or less complete vacuum.

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"Receiver" Quotes from Famous Books

... receiver slammed back on its hook without even a "good-by" from him struck her like a slap in the face. She hung up slowly, and went back to her work. Never since their first meeting, and they had not been exempt from lovers' quarrels, had Jack Barrow ever ...

— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... phrases that were jumbled as in a dream. He came to himself suddenly with a start and then the connection was broken off and there was nothing but a confused buzzing and rattling. He straightened up on the stool, waited a minute, and then jiggled the receiver. He felt very queer. He felt to blame for his stupidness. He felt someway as though he had been caught up with. And ...

— Stubble • George Looms

... thing is ill-gotten, when he that has it may not keep it, and yet he may not return it to the person from whom he received it, because he received it unjustly, while the latter gave it unjustly. This happens in simony, wherein both giver and receiver contravene the justice of the Divine Law, so that restitution is to be made not to the giver, but by giving alms. The same applies to all similar cases of ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... "cross-counters," and grows humorous over "mouse-traps," "pile-drivers on the mark," and "the flow of the ruby." Having absorbed four whiskeys-and-soda, he will observe that "if a fellow refuses to train properly, he must expect to be receiver-general," and, after lighting his tenth cigar as a tribute, presumably, to the lung power of the combatants, will indulge in some moody reflections on the decay of British valour and the general degeneracy of Englishmen. He will then drink liqueur brandy out of a claret glass, and, having slapped ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 5, 1890 • Various

... The receiver made haste to plunge the papyrus into the basin; then, holding the dripping leaf in the sunlight, he would be rewarded with a versified inscription upon its face; and the fame of the fountain seldom suffered ...

— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace

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