receiver

English

Etymology

From Middle English recevere, receyvere, equivalent to receive +‎ -er. Compare Anglo-Norman receivour, recevor, rescaivour.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈsivɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈsiːvə/

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• Rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)

Noun

receiver (plural receivers)

1. A person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something.
   • Charles Dickens, The Begging-Letter Writer

     I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.

   1. A trustee appointed to hold and administer property involved in litigation.
   2. A person appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
   3. A person who accepts stolen goods.
   4. Any of several electronic devices that receive signals and convert them into sound or vision.
      • 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)

        The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.

      1. A telephone handset.
      2. A smartphone earpiece.
   5. (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
   6. (tennis) A person who attempts to return the ball after it has been served.
   7. An element of a mechanical or other system or device designed to accept another element.
      1. (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.
      2. A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
      3. A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.

Synonyms

• recipient (more formal, usually referring to one who receives such things as an award or medal)

Antonyms

• (electronic device that receives signals and converts them into sound or vision): transmitter

Coordinate terms

• (electronic device that receives signals and converts them into sound or vision): transmitter-receiver, transceiver

Derived terms

• receivership

Translations

person who receives

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 收件人 (zh) (shōujiànrén)

• Czech: příjemce (cs) m
• Danish: modtager (da) c
• Finnish: vastaanottaja (fi), saaja (fi)
• French: destinataire (fr) m, f
• German: Empfänger (de) m
• Greek: αποδέκτης (el) m (apodéktis), παραλήπτης (el) m (paralíptis)

• Japanese: 受取人 (うけとりじん, uketorijin)
• Macedonian: при́мател m (prímatel), при́мач m (prímač)
• Malay: penerima
• Norwegian: mottaker m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) destinatário (pt) m, recebedor m
• Russian: получа́тель (ru) m (polučátelʹ), получа́тельница (ru) f (polučátelʹnica)
• Spanish: destinatario (es) m
• Swedish: mottagare (sv) c

trustee

• Finnish: selvitysmies

person appointed to settle financial affairs

• French: receveur (fr) m

• Greek: φοροεισπράκτορας (el) m (foroeispráktoras)

person who accepts stolen goods

• Danish: hæler (da) c
• Finnish: luukuttaja (slang)
• French: receleur (fr) m
• German: Hehler (de) m
• Greek: κλεπταποδόχος (el) m, f (kleptapodóchos)

• Italian: ricettatore (it) m
• Norwegian: heler m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) receptador (pt) m
• Swedish: hälare (sv) c
• Walloon: riceleu (wa) m

electronic device

• Czech: přijímač (cs) m
• Danish: modtager (da) c
• Finnish: vastaanotin (fi)
• French: récepteur (fr) m
• German: Empfangsgerät n, Empfänger (de) m
• Greek: δέκτης (el) m (déktis)
• Hebrew: מַקְלֵט‎ (he) m (maklét)
• Hungarian: vevőkészülék

• Italian: (telephone) cornetta (it) f
• Macedonian: при́емник m (príemnik)
• Norwegian: mottaker m
• Polish: odbiornik (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) receptor (pt) m
• Russian: приёмник (ru) m (prijómnik)
• Spanish: receptor (es) m
• Swedish: mottagare (sv) c

electronic device that receives and converts signal

• Danish: modtager (da) c

• Finnish: vastaanotin (fi)

telephone handset

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 話筒 (zh), 话筒 (zh) (huàtǒng), 聽筒 (zh), 听筒 (zh) (tīngtǒng), 受話器 (zh), 受话器 (zh) (shòuhuàqì)

• Danish: telefonrør (da) n
• Dutch: hoorn (nl)
• Finnish: kuuloke (fi), luuri (fi)
• French: écouteur (fr) m
• German: Hörer (de) m

• Greek: ακουστικό (el) n (akoustikó)
• Japanese: 受話器 (じゅわき, juwaki)
• Korean: 수화기 (ko) (suhwagi)
• Lao: ຫູໂທລະສັບ (hū thō la sap)
• Russian: телефо́нная тру́бка f (telefónnaja trúbka), тру́бка (ru) f (trúbka)
• Spanish: receptor (es) m
• Swedish: telefonlur c, lur (sv) c
• Ukrainian: слу́хавка f (slúxavka)

in American football

• Finnish: laitahyökkääjä (fi)

in tennis

• Finnish: vastaanottaja (fi)

element of system

part of a firearm containing the action

vessel in a compound steam engine

• Finnish: välittäjä (fi), resiiveri

capacious vessel for receiving steam

• Finnish: höyrynerotin