[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

receiver \receiv"er\ r-es=ev"~er, n. cf. f.
   receveur.
   1. one who takes or receives in any manner.
      1913 webster

   2. law 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. --bouvier.
      1913 webster

   3. one who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing
      them to be stolen. --blackstone.
      1913 webster

   4. chem.
      a a vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the
          like, for receiving and condensing the product of
          distillation.
      b a vessel for receiving and containing gases.
          1913 webster

   5. pneumatics 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.
      1913 webster

   6. steam engine
      a a vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the
          high-pressure cylinder before it enters the
          low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.
      b a capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant
          boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
          1913 webster

   7. that portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system,
      at which the message is received and made audible; --
      opposed to transmitter.
      1913 webster

   8. firearms in portable breech-loading firearms, the steel
      frame screwed to the breech end of the barrel, which
      receives the bolt or block, gives means of securing for
      firing, facilitates loading, and holds the ejector,
      cut-off, etc.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   exhausted receiver physics, a receiver, as that used with
      the air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a
      vessel the interior of which is a more or less complete
      vacuum.
      1913 webster
see also:
bell jar air pump transmitter exhausted receiver 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

electronic device \electronic device\ n.
   a device depending on the principles of electronics and using
   the manipulation of electron flow for its operation.
   pjc

   note: numerous electronic devices are in daily use, among
         them the television, radio, computer, robot,
         transmitter, receiver, vcr, cd player, etc.
         pjc
see also:
television radio computer robot transmitter receiver 
vcr cd player 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

receiver
     n 1: set that receives radio or tv signals syn: receiving
          system
     2: law a person usually appointed by a court of law who
        liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of
        affected parties syn: liquidator
     3: earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds syn:
        telephone receiver
     4: a person who gets something syn: recipient
     5: a football player who catches or is supposed to catch a
        forward pass syn: pass receiver, pass catcher
see also:
receiving system liquidator telephone receiver recipient pass receiver pass catcher 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

131 moby thesaurus words for "receiver":
   christian, god-fearing man, telautography, teletype,
   teletype network, teletyping, accepter, accountant, acquirer,
   addressee, audience, auditor, beholder, believer, bookkeeper,
   bursar, cabinet, call box, cashier, cashkeeper, catechumen,
   chamberlain, chassis, churchgoer, churchite, churchman,
   closed-circuit telegraphy, code, coin telephone, communicant,
   comptroller, consignee, console, container, controller, convert,
   curator, daily communicant, depositary, depository, desk telephone,
   devotee, devotionalist, dial telephone, disciple,
   duplex telegraphy, electricity, extension, facsimile telegraph,
   fanatic, fence, financial officer, follower, getter,
   good christian, hearer, holder, housing, interrupter, key,
   liquidator, listener, looker, mouthpiece, multiplex telegraphy,
   neophyte, news ticker, obtainer, pay station, payee, paymaster,
   phone, pietist, procurer, proselyte, public telephone,
   purse bearer, quadruplex telegraphy, radio, radio receiver,
   radio set, radio telescope, railroad telegraphy, receiving set,
   receptacle, recipient, religionist, saint, sender, set,
   simplex telegraphy, single-current telegraphy, sounder, spectator,
   steward, stock ticker, submarine telegraphy, swagman, swagsman,
   taker, telegraphics, telegraphy, telephone, telephone booth,
   telephone engineering, telephone extension, telephone mechanics,
   telephone receiver, telephonics, telephony, teleprinter,
   teletypewriter, teletypewriting, telex, theist, ticker,
   transmitter, treasurer, trustee, truster, typotelegraph,
   typotelegraphy, utensil, vessel, viewer, votary, wall telephone,
   wire service, wireless, wireless set, zealot

[5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

receiver, chancery practice. a person appointed by a court possessing 
chancery jurisdiction to receive the rents and profits of land, or the 
profits or produce of other property in dispute. 
     2. the power of appointing a receiver is a discretionary power 
exercised by the court. the appointment is provisional, for the more speedy 
getting in of the estate in dispute, and scouring it for the benefit of such 
person as may be entitled to it, and does not affect the right. 3 atk. 564. 
     3. it is not within the compass of this work to state in what cases a 
receiver will be appointed; on this subject, see 2 madd. ch. 233. 
     4. the receiver is an officer of the court, and as such, responsible 
for good faith and reasonable diligence. when the property is lost or 
injured by any negligence or dishonest execution of the trust, he is liable 
in damages; but he is not, as of course, responsible because there has been 
an embezzlement or theft. he is bound to such ordinary diligence, as belongs 
to a prudent and honest discharge of his duties, and such as is required of 
all persons who receive compensation for their services. story, bailm. sec. 
620, 621; and the cases there cited. vide, generally, 2 mudd. ch. 232; newl. 
ch. pr. 88; 8 com. dig. 890; 18 vin. ab. 160; 1 supp. to ves. jr. 455; 2 id. 
57, 58, 74, 75, 442, 455; bouv. inst. index, h.t. 

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