receiver
pronunciation
How to pronounce receiver in British English:
UK [rɪˈsiːvə(r)]
How to pronounce receiver in American English:
US [rɪˈsiːvər]
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- Noun:
- set that receives radio or tv signals
- (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
- earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds
- a person who gets something
- a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass
Word Origin
- receiver (n.)
- 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.
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Example
- 1. It is matched by a receiver using the same algorithm .
- 2. Ccd cameras come with one of two types of light sensitive receiver : monochrome or color .
- 3. It requires specific phones with mediaflo-support , since they need the mediaflo receiver and decoder chipset .
- 4. I will share with you important truths I have learned that will keep your " receiver " deceiver free .
- 5. Radio and later television programming has been broadcasted over the airwaves free to anyone with a receiver for much of the past century .