receiver
112
3.4
- noun
- /rɪˈsiːvər/
:
receptor
- When the call came through, she picked up the receiver to hear her friend's voice on the line.
- radio receiver
- satellite receiver
- wireless receiver
We could buy the light that has a a receiver for this radio frequency signal.
- We could buy the light that has a a receiver for this radio frequency signal.
- But others, like this AV receiver, make no mention of latency whatsoever.
- Yes, they are the square audio situation wireless receivers.
- What's that What is this a trackball mouse wait, so it comes with the USB receiver.
- So we'll talk about also towards the end of that talk how you build, build your own ADSB receiver.
- There's a transmitter receiver, and then they come with a microphone, and I have two of those.
Examples
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When I replaced the receiver and lifted it again, no dial tone came.
Fiction book (1990) -
Gentry stops and looks at Leon as he returns the phone receiver to his ear.
Fiction book (1990) -
You had to have like a receiver in more than one box under the TV.
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From receiver 3, second floor of your house.
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You just pick up the receiver, and I'm here.
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This lets you use your TV essentially as a receiver and then send the optical out to whatever sound setup you have.
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A soft, electric whir comes over the receiver, almost like the purr of a cat.
Fiction book (1990) -
The student wears the receiver, which accesses the signal wirelessly through an induction neck loop.
Academic text (2013) -
Marietta, her hand still on the telephone, grips the receiver so hard her knuckles turn white.
Fiction book (1990) -
Sayer listens to it a moment before slowly setting the receiver back on its cradle.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A small machine that plays music and news sent through the air
332
1.0
A screen device you use at home to watch shows and films
207
3.4
A machine like a television or radio
37
3.8
A program or process that receives and handles messages from another part
5
4.4
A device that receives radio or television signals to give sound and pictures
5
5.3
A device that receives radio broadcasts for people to listen to
2
3.9
A device that picks up wireless signals and turns them into sound or data
1
2.0
A part of a phone that you hold to your ear and mouth to listen and speak
1
5.1
A device on a satellite that gets signals from the ground or other satellites
1
6.1
A machine like a radio that receives and makes broadcast signals stronger
1
2.4
A machine that receives TV signals and shows them on a screen
A set of devices that pick up radio or television signals
Compounds
- Specialized
2
3.9
A device that picks up wireless signals and turns them into sound or data
- Specialized
1
5.1
A device on a satellite that gets signals from the ground or other satellites
- Specialized
Keeping a radio on all the time to listen for important messages
- Specialized
A radio that mixes its signal with a received signal to make a lower frequency easier to amplify and hear
- Formal
A legal relationship where a person in charge of a bankrupt person's property manages it for the people owed money
- Specialized
A radio that changes incoming signals to one fixed frequency to make them easier to receive
How Complete
- Specialized
5
4.4
- Specialized
1
5.5
- Specialized
112
3.4
- US
96
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Receiver as a device shares the same origin from receive, with parts re- 'back/again' and capere 'to take', the same root as capture. So a receiver is something that 'takes in' or 'gets' signals or sound, which is why we call radios and TVs 'receivers'.