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** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], [xno] et al., later also reformed as [en]. Compare [fro],
[fro].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. _A person who receives._
1. [en] [en] An official whose job is to receive tax es or other monies ; a tax collector , a treasurer . [from 14th c.]
2. A person who receive s something in a general sense; a recipient . [from 14th c.]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1850 | author=w:Charles Dickens | chapter=The Begging-Letter Writer | title=Household Words
|passage=I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen
RECEIVER of Begging Letters.}}
1. A person who accepts stolen goods. [from 14th c.]
2. [en] A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity. [from 18th c.]
3. * [en]
4. [en] An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed . [from 19th c.]
5. [en] A person who attempts to return the serve . [from 20th c.]
1. _An item or apparatus that receives._
1. Something which receive s some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle . [from 14th c.]
2. [en] A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation , or for containing gas es. [from 16th c.]
3. [en] An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum . [from 17th c.]
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1791 | author=w:James Boswell | title=Life of Johnson | page=839 | publisher=Oxford | year_published=2008
|passage=A man can live in thick air, but perishes in an exhausted RECEIVER.}}
1. [en] The part of a firearm containing the action . [from 19th c.]
2. [en] A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine . [from 19th c.]
3. Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signal s transmitted as such. [from 19th c.]
4. * 1976 , _Boating_ (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)
5. *: 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.
6. The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; [hence] the handset itself; an earpiece . [from 19th c.]
7. * [version=Burt]
8. [en] A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg.
**** Coordinate terms
- [electronic device that receives signals and converts them into sound or vision] [en] , [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[person who receives]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] [literary]
- Portuguese: [Brazil] [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
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[trustee]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
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[person appointed to settle financial affairs]
- Assamese: [as]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
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[person who accepts stolen goods]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] [slang]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Portuguese: [Brazil] [pt]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Walloon: [wa]
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[electronic device]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [telephone] [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [Brazil] [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
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[electronic device that receives and converts signal]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
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[telephone handset]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lao: [lo]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
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[in American football]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
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[in tennis]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
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[element of system]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
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[part of a firearm containing the action]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
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[vessel in a compound steam engine]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
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[(chemistry) vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or
for containing gases]
- Irish: [ga]
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[en] [en]