Definition of Receiver

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Receiver

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.

One who takes or receives in any manner.

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.

One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.

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.

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 see Illust. of Air pump.

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.

That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.

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Receiver Quotations

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke

I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.
Michael Irvin

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Walter Benjamin

It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.
Steve Largent

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
Peter Davison

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Augustus Hare

People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today.
Dan Fouts

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
Joe Theismann

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.
Darren Flutie

Receiver Translations

receiver in Italian is destinatario, ascoltatore
receiver in Spanish is oyente, receptor
receiver in Swedish is mottagare, telefonlur

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