Receiver

n. person or thing that receives; device that receives signals and converts them into audio or visual signals (i.e. radio or television); part of a telephone that converts signals into sound; person who takes charge of property

Receiver may mean: Communication The listening device part of a telephoneThe handset containing that deviceReceiver (radio), an electronic device that converts a radio signal from a transmitter into useful informationReceiver (modulated ultrasound), a device that converts a modulated ultrasound signal into useful informationReceiver (hearing aids), a transducer in hearing aids responsible for converting the electric input signal into an acoustic output signal; see also hearing aidReceiver (information theory), the receiving end of a communications channelIn communications and information processing, a receiver is the recipient (observer) of a message (information), which is sent from a source (object). Receivers decode messages.Digital media receiverAV receiver
See more at Wikipedia.org...

Noun
1. set that receives radio or tv signals
(synonym) receiving system
(hypernym) set
(hyponym) direction finder
(part-meronym) antenna, aerial, transmitting aerial
(derivation) pick up, receive
2. (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
(synonym) liquidator
(hypernym) fiduciary
(classification) law, jurisprudence
3. earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds
(synonym) telephone receiver
(hypernym) earphone, earpiece, headphone, phone
(hyponym) headset
(part-holonym) telephone, phone, telephone set
4. a person who gets something
(synonym) recipient
(hypernym) acquirer
(hyponym) addressee
(derivation) receive, have
5. a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass
(synonym) pass receiver, pass catcher
(hypernym) football player, footballer

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.
  

(n.)
One who takes or receives in any manner.
  

(n.)
One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
  

(n.)
A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.
  

(n.)
A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
  

(n.)
A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
  

A bankruptcy practitioner appointed by secured creditors in the United Kingdom to oversee the repayment of debts.