Definitions for the word "receiver" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
One who takes or receives in any manner.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
1 person or thing that receives. 2 part of a machine or instrument that receives something (esp. The part of a telephone that contains the earpiece). 3 (in full official receiver) person appointed by a court to administer the property of a bankrupt or insane person, or property under litigation. 4 radio or television receiving apparatus. 5 person who receives stolen goods.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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