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What is a receiver?

What is a receiver? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something.
    1. A trustee appointed to hold and administer property involved in litigation.
    2. A person appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
    3. A person who accepts stolen goods.
    4. Any of several electronic devices that receive signals and convert them into sound or vision.
    5. (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
    6. (tennis) A person who attempts to return the ball after it has been served.
    7. An element of a mechanical or other system or device designed to accept another element.
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Two escape holes in the receiver ring are intended to vent escaping gases away from the shooter.
A lot of veterans figure to get their walking papers, including cornerback Charles Woodson and receiver Jerry Porter.
By buying an additional receiver, anyone could pick up a radio frequency with a GPS position corrected to within several meters of accuracy.
The receiver is of the flat-top variety with an accessory rail that is adaptable to most optical sights.
This means that a quadraphony transmission must be capable of reproduction through a stereo or monaural receiver.
He and the receiver kept running along the dark expanse of the warehouse roof, making for the elevated tracks of the commuter rail.

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