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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
receiver
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
official receiver
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
administrative
▪ Joint administrative receiver Murdoch McKillop said cuts were part of a scaling down of production to meet reduced demand.
▪ Mr. Moss, for the applicants, went through all the provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 relating to administrative receivers.
▪ Every administrative receiver is born in this way.
▪ Thus administrative receivers must be qualified to act as insolvency practitioners and can only be removed from office by the court.
▪ Against that general background I now consider the detailed statutory provisions relating to administrative receivers.
▪ Shop stewards will send the letter to joint administrative receiver Ipe Jacob, requesting it be presented to potential buyers.
▪ The powers of the administrative receiver are extensive and he will have complete control over the management of the company.
▪ B and L were unable to keep up with their loan repayments and the bank appointed administrative receivers.
appointed
▪ Len Gatoff, a partner with Touche Ross in Newcastle, was appointed receiver.
joint
▪ Mark Palios, the joint receiver in charge, said he was not aware of Ron's accident.
official
▪ The official receiver has been called in to work out how much the firm, which folded last year, owed.
▪ And the official receiver has warned that more job losses could follow if threatened strikes at other plants go ahead.
▪ The official receiver was duly ordered to exploit the film.
wide
▪ Comment: A wide receiver, threatening a brute like Lloyd?
▪ The Steelers have used Stewart as a quarterback, wide receiver, running back and pooch punter.
▪ A third Predators player, wide receiver / linebacker Clif Dell, was also invited to Jaguars camp.
▪ Miami released Fred Barnett, a week after the veteran wide receiver lost his starting job.
▪ Junior Tim Carey completed 7 of 11 passes but had one perfectly thrown 40-yard bomb dropped by a backup wide receiver.
▪ One is on injured reserve: wide receiver Charles Johnson.
▪ Their secondary included no cornerback tall enough to dream of looking into the eyes of Detroit wide receiver Herman Moore.
■ NOUN
radio
▪ Hand-held radio receivers can be rented for 50 cents and offer narration for the self-guided tours.
▪ The data is transmitted to nearby radio receivers, letting a doctor follow you around, sort of.
telephone
▪ Adam sighed as he replaced the telephone receiver.
▪ Dov Kalmenzohn lifted the telephone receiver and called a number.
▪ He lifted the telephone receiver and dialled the number.
▪ She picked up the telephone receiver, disbelievingly, and dialled the number of the card.
▪ Reaching over the reception desk, he lifted the telephone receiver.
▪ Rohmer was already moving to join them as Cardiff replaced the telephone receiver and pushed away from the reception desk.
▪ The telephone receiver dangled uselessly some feet from his motionless body.
■ VERB
appoint
▪ In that case a debenture holder had appointed a receiver, and the directors were allowed to bring a case against him.
▪ Her affairs were placed in the hands of the Court of Protection, which appointed Mrs B receiver.
▪ Sound Diffusion ordinary shares were suspended in December at 22p and the group asked its bankers to appoint a receiver.
▪ A creditor may appoint the official receiver to be his general or special proxy.
▪ B and L were unable to keep up with their loan repayments and the bank appointed administrative receivers.
▪ To appoint a receiver is more convenient for the mortgagee than taking possession.
call
▪ And 200 jobs are at risk at Ferranti in Newport Pagnell after the defence electronics firm called in the receivers.
▪ When the person called lifts the receiver, the ringing pulses will cease.
▪ Last year they faced uncertainty over their jobs when the Lewis's group went bust and called in the receivers.
▪ Two hundred and eighty people were employed there by Leyland Daf before the company called in the receivers.
hand
▪ Disconnecting the wire, Coleman pocketed the recorder, handed the receiver to El-Jorr and walked out of the room.
▪ She handed the receiver to him and left the room without a word, closing the door quietly behind her.
hold
▪ He held the receiver a yard away from his ear.
▪ He listened ruefully, holding the receiver away from his ear.
▪ Silently, and still bemused, she held out the receiver.
▪ He held the receiver, hooked up with the general static.
▪ I held the receiver away from my ear and looked at it, scowling.
▪ He seemed to notice only now that he was still holding the phone receiver in his hand.
▪ He held out the receiver to her.
▪ I must have been holding the silent receiver against my ear for a full minute when Barbara walked in.
lift
▪ In the sixth hotel the phone was pink and its weight felt wrong as I lifted the receiver.
▪ By the time I lifted the receiver, there was no one on the line.
▪ He lifted the telephone receiver and dialled the number.
▪ Dov Kalmenzohn lifted the telephone receiver and called a number.
▪ When the person called lifts the receiver, the ringing pulses will cease.
▪ I lifted the receiver with caution, listening for the white noise of a long-distance connection.
▪ Finally he lifted the receiver and dialled.
▪ Reaching over the reception desk, he lifted the telephone receiver.
pick
▪ Ven was her first thought when she picked up the receiver.
▪ In the hallway my hand trembled as I picked up the receiver.
▪ She picked up the receiver and spoke into it.
▪ I ran out into the hallway, picked up the receiver, and it was Minna.
▪ She picked up the receiver and dialled Tom's number.
▪ Her mind made up, she picked up the receiver and dialled the number of the separate school.
▪ She could roll over the bed and pick up the receiver.
▪ She picked up the receiver, dialled Giles Carnaby's number, and then replaced the receiver before the connection was made.
put
▪ I put down the receiver and wept.
▪ The moment I put the receiver down, a heavy woman beside me picked it up and got through.
▪ When at last she put the receiver down and went into the kitchen she found that Edward had unpacked the shopping.
▪ Instead of calling me over, she puts the receiver down on the desk and comes to me.
▪ Albert panicked, and put the receiver down, which made the next attempt more difficult.
▪ The woman put the receiver down.
▪ Hermann Goering put the receiver in its cradle slightly downcast.
▪ Robyn wondered whether he'd simply put the receiver down without her realising and walked away.
replace
▪ I sighed and replaced the receiver thoughtfully.
▪ Slowly she replaced the receiver, wondering why did the past always eventually find you-sometime?
▪ Adam sighed as he replaced the telephone receiver.
▪ Liz replaced the receiver and tried to keep calm, but she could feel panic, fever, tears approaching.
▪ As she replaced the receiver with a sad little gesture she felt her eyes fill with tears.
▪ As she replaced the receiver after the last attempt she remembered Marc's suggestion two days ago.
▪ She picked up the receiver, dialled Giles Carnaby's number, and then replaced the receiver before the connection was made.
▪ It would have to wait for a more opportune time, she decided, and replaced the receiver.
slam
▪ Cornelius slammed down the receiver and stalked back to the car.
▪ He slammed the receiver down so hard that the plastic cracked.
▪ Even though he sounded apologetic, Celestine slammed down the receiver.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Carlson is the court-appointed receiver for the firm.
▪ Cory slammed down the receiver.
▪ The gift should be something the receiver will like.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By investing products with meanings from other sign systems, Williamson argues that receivers are caught up in an ideological bind.
▪ Clark was recruited out of Ricks by then-Stanford coach Bill Walsh, who intended to use Clark primarily as a receiver.
▪ Later they became insolvent and a receiver was appointed.
▪ One is on injured reserve: wide receiver Charles Johnson.
▪ Reaching over the reception desk, he lifted the telephone receiver.
▪ Rising slowly like an automaton, she made her way over to the counter and picked up the receiver.
▪ Slowly she replaced the receiver, wondering why did the past always eventually find you-sometime?
▪ Stewart has lined up at quarterback, running back and receiver.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
receiver

electronic device \electronic device\ n. a device depending on the principles of electronics and using the manipulation of electron flow for its operation.

Note: Numerous electronic devices are in daily use, among them the television, radio, computer, robot, transmitter, receiver, VCR, CD player, etc.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
receiver

mid-14c. (mid-13c. as a surname), agent noun from receive, or from Old French recevere (Modern French receveur), agent noun from recievere. As a telephone apparatus, from 1877; in reference to a radio unit, from 1891; in U.S. football sense, from 1897.

Wiktionary
receiver

n. 1 A person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something. 2 # A trustee appointed to hold and administer property involved in litigation. 3 # A person appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity. 4 # A person who accepts stolen goods. 5 # Any of several electronic devices that receive signals and convert them into sound or vision. 6 ## A telephone handset. 7 # (label en American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed. 8 # (label en tennis) A person who attempts to return the ball after it has been serve. 9 # An element of a mechanical or other system or device designed to accept another element. 10 ## (context firearms English) The part of a firearm containing the action. 11 ## A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine. 12 ## A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.

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WordNet
receiver

  1. n. set that receives radio or tv signals [syn: receiving system]

  2. (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties [syn: liquidator]

  3. earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds [syn: telephone receiver]

  4. a person who gets something [syn: recipient]

  5. a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass [syn: pass receiver, pass catcher]

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Wikipedia
Receiver

Receiver or receive may refer to:

Receiver (firearms)

In firearms terminology, the receiver is the part of a firearm that houses the operating parts. There are many types and styles of firearm receivers. A bolt action or semi-automatic firearm receiver usually contains the bolt carrier group, trigger group, and magazine port.

In most handguns, the receiver, or frame, holds the magazine well or rotary magazine as well as the trigger mechanism. It is sometimes called the body of the firearm, while in the context of handguns ( revolvers and pistols), it is often called the frame.

The receiver is often made of forged, machined or stamped steel or aluminium; in addition to these traditional materials, modern science and engineering have introduced polymers and sintered metal powders to receiver construction.

Receiver (album)

Receiver is the second and final album of the band Farmer Not So John, released in 1998.

Receiver (information theory)

The receiver in information theory is the receiving end of a communication channel. It receives decoded messages/ information from the sender, who first encoded them. Sometimes the receiver is modeled so as to include the decoder. Real-world receivers like radio receivers or telephones can not be expected to receive as much information as predicted by the noisy channel coding theorem.

Receiver (video game)

Receiver is a first-person shooter video game developed by Wolfire Games, originally developed as part of the 7 Day FPS Challenge.

The game attempts to portray realistic gun mechanics through reloading and bullet physics, as the player scavenges items and audio tapes, which reveal the story, from a procedurally generated world.

It was released in June 2012 for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X.

Receiver (statue)

The Receiver statue is a tall public statue in Green Bay, Wisconsin associated with the Green Bay Packers football team.

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Usage examples of "receiver".

I ran, carrying the cat litter box like a pizza tray, disrupting the class, causing Winnie to become highly agitato, unable to explain because I had a cigar in my mouth and was carrying a pizza tray and running for my life from men who were carrying wildly beeping receivers which made them Israeli spies and men who were wildly firing weapons which made them Arab terrorists and the whole macho parade failing to arouse or interest the girls in the slightest, which, of course, made them lesbians.

Bobby was the NOAA observer for the Park, or at least making daily reports to the National Weather Service in Anchorage was his excuse to the IRS every time he bought a new receiver.

The officer at the telephone, who was still without his call, put down the receiver and stared at Asch in utter astonishment.

She replaced the receiver, picked up her capacious knitting bag, gave her hat brim a final pat in front of the mirror, and swung the wooden shed door to without noticing Asey standing outside.

And an instrument room with signaling apparatus, senders, receivers, mirror-grids and audiphones of several varieties.

Eleven days later Kidder called Conant and gave specific instructions on how to equip his receiver with a facsimile set which would enable Kidder to send written matter over the air.

But if Conant was going to be that way about itwell, anyway, the receiver would be no good without the transmitter.

But if Conant was going to be that way about it-well, anyway, the receiver would be no good without the transmitter.

With hands dripping gore, the crowd fought over detached plates of armor, a boot, a triblaster with a shattered receiver and delaminated muzzle.

With forty minutes of argument, cutoffs, and being kept on hold behind her, Ana slammed the receiver down and grabbed at her barely grabbable hair.

Ana slammed the receiver down and grabbed at her barely grabbable hair.

The mock assaults that were made upon me put me in a good humour, and Calsabigi said that my idea had insured me an income of a hundred thousand francs a year, though it would ruin the other receivers.

The Hindmost had set a stepping-disc receiver on the outside of the hull.

Ward Hiller sat erect in his chair and stared with fascinated eyes at the iconoscope receiver.

On the other hand, the Eleventh Amendment was held not to be infringed by joinder of a State court judge and receiver in an interpleader proceeding in which the State had no interest and neither the judge nor the receiver was enjoined by the final decree.