Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 10 compound words that contain receiver. The most common are listed below. Open receiver in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- wide receiverAn offensive football player whose position on the line of scrimmage is farthest from the ball and whose function is to principally to catch passes.
- Satellite receiver
- GPS receiverAn audiovisual device, fitted to a civilian road vehicle, that uses the military Global Positioning System (U.S. Navstar system) as an aid to navigation.
- receiver-generalAn officer who receives the public revenue; a treasurer.
- rake receiverA radio receiver designed to counter the effects of multipath fading, using several sub-receivers called fingers that independently decode individual multipath components; they are recombined at a later stage.
- first receiverThe first player to receive the ball from a scrum-half. This is often the fly-half, but may be a different player if the fly-half is unavailable, or a forward who will drive.
- television receiverA television set.
- crystal radio receiverSynonym of crystal set: An early radio receiver, having no electrical power supply except the radio waves themselves; it used a crystal of lead or cadmium sulphide and a wire (the cat's whisker) touching the crystal's surface.
- supersonic heterodyne receiversuperheterodyne receiver
- superheterodyne receiverA radio receiver that mixes (beats or heterodynes) a locally produced frequency with the incoming frequency
- watch receiverA small telephone receiver resembling a pocket watch.
- exhausted receiverA receiver, such as that used with an air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel whose interior is a more or less complete vacuum.
- Ader receiverA kind of telephone receiver incorporating a magnetized metal ring.
- cat's whisker receiverSynonym of crystal set: An early radio receiver, having no electrical power supply except the radio waves themselves; it used a crystal of lead or cadmium sulphide and a wire (the cat's whisker) touching the crystal's surface.
Compound words 10
- transceiverA combined radio transmitter and receiver.
- casseiverA device that combines a stereo receiver with a cassette deck in a single unit.
- receiverlessWithout a receiver.
- multireceiverInvolving more than one receiver.
- phosphoreceiverThe part of a molecule (typically a protein) that receives a phosphoryl group from a phosphodonor
- photoreceiverphotodetector
- subreceiverA secondary receiver; one who receives goods from another receiver.
- telereceiverThe receiving device in a teletransmission system.
- receivershipThe office and duties of a receiver.
- receivershipsplural of receivership: The office and duties of a receiver.