RECEIVER
\ɹɪsˈiːvə], \ɹɪsˈiːvə], \ɹ_ɪ_s_ˈiː_v_ə]\
Definitions of RECEIVER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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set that receives radio or tv signals
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earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds
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(law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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One who takes or receives in any manner.
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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.
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One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
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A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.
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A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
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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.
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A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.
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That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; - opposed to transmitter.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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One who takes or receives in any manner.
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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.
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One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
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A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.
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A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
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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.
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A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.
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That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; - opposed to transmitter.
By Noah Webster.
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One who, or that which, takes or obtains; the part of a telephone which takes the sound from the wire and imparts it to the ear; a person appointed by a court to manage property which is the subject of a lawsuit, or is owned by a bankrupt person or firm.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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One who receives: (chem.) a vessel for receiving and condensing in distillation, or for containing gases: the glass vessel of an air-pump in which the vacuum is formed.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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One or that which receives; (1) a bell shaped glass, as for holding gas; (2) one who has official charge of property, etc., under the orders of a court; (3)elec.) in telephone and telegraph systems, etc., a device for receiving a message; opposed to transmitter.
By James Champlin Fernald
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In pharmacy, a wide-necked globular vessel, the neck of which widens gradually outwards, to receive the tapering beak of the retort in distillation. Like the retort, the receiver may be plain or tubulated. A quilled receiver is one that has a tapering tube from its lower surface, which is inserted into a graduated bottle through a cork joint, when it is desirable to know accurately the amount of fluid that has passed over.
By Robley Dunglison
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A vessel for collecting a gas or a distillate
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. One who or that which takes or receives; an officer appointed to take public money: —one who takes stolen goods knowing them to be stolen; -one who partakes of the eucharist; - in chemistry, a vessel into which spirits are emitted from the still in the process of distillation;-a vessel of the air-pumps from which the air can be exhausted.
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