Antonym: transmitter. Similar words: receive, perceive, perceived, conceive, recent, recently, recession, reception. Meaning: [rɪ'sɪːvə(r)] 
n. 1. set that receives radio or tv signals 2. (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties 3. earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds 4. a person who gets something 5. a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass.
n. 1. set that receives radio or tv signals 2. (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties 3. earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds 4. a person who gets something 5. a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass. 
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31. I went to pick up the phone/receiver, but it had stopped ringing.
32. The San Francisco Giants deactivated wide receiver Chuck Robinson.
33. He lifted the telephone receiver and dialled the number.
34. She picked up the receiver and dialled Tom's number.
35. As a receiver, Irvin belongs to an exclusive club.
36. Finally he lifted the receiver and dialled.
37. Oliver passed the receiver to Rain.
38. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Edmund Burke 
39. His heart pounded as he hung up the receiver.
40. Every administrative receiver is born in this way.
41. He must have knocked the receiver from its cradle.
42. The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. William Blake
43. Silently, and still bemused,(http://sentencedict.com/receiver.html) she held out the receiver.
44. Liz replaced the receiver and tried to keep calm, but she could feel panic, fever, tears approaching.
45. A wide receiver does the same dance in the end zone and draws a penalty.
46. Ven was her first thought when she picked up the receiver.
47. He glowered at the instrument, plugged it in, then picked up the receiver.
48. A handset would contain an ultrasonic transmitter and the television fitted with a matching receiver.
49. Joint administrative receiver Murdoch McKillop said cuts were part of a scaling down of production to meet reduced demand.
50. He hears the two-part clunk of the receiver being set down.
51. It was too easy to just reach out from under the duvet and clunk the receiver up and down in its cradle.
52. That's a heterodyne receiver.
53. He'd thrown the receiver off the hook, but she was haranguing the empty line, demanding he reply.
54. She replaced the receiver and tapped her fingers on the dog-eared directory as she waited for it to ring.
55. It would have to wait for a more opportune time, she decided, and replaced the receiver.
56. He pressed his ear against the receiver and listened hard.
57. He sets the phone back into the receiver and falls on to the bed.
58. In other words, only an omniscient analyst can judge the degrees of cost and pay-off to both utterer and receiver.
59. My own range-extender is to glare angrily at the receiver.
60. It seemed that he acted as a receiver of stolen goods ....
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