Phrase Hound found 13 phrases and 6 compound words that contain receivers. The most common are listed below. Open receivers in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 13
- GPS receiversplural of GPS receiver: An audiovisual device, fitted to a civilian road vehicle, that uses the military Global Positioning System (U.S. Navstar system) as an aid to navigation.
- wide receiversplural of wide receiver: An offensive football player whose position on the line of scrimmage is farthest from the ball and whose function is to principally to catch passes.
- superheterodyne receiversplural of superheterodyne receiver: A radio receiver that mixes (beats or heterodynes) a locally produced frequency with the incoming frequency
- first receiversplural of first receiver: The 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.
- receivers-generalplural of receiver-general: An officer who receives the public revenue; a treasurer.
- television receiversplural of television receiver: A television set.
- watch receiversplural of watch receiver: A small telephone receiver resembling a pocket watch.
- exhausted receiversplural of exhausted receiver: A receiver, such as that used with an air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel whose interior is a more or less complete vacuum.
- rake receiversplural of rake receiver: A 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.
- crystal radio receiversplural of crystal radio receiver: 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.
- Ader receiversplural of Ader receiver: A kind of telephone receiver incorporating a magnetized metal ring.
- supersonic heterodyne receiversplural of supersonic heterodyne receiver: superheterodyne receiver
- cat's whisker receiversplural of cat's whisker receiver: 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 6
- receivershipThe office and duties of a receiver.
- receivershipsplural of receivership: The office and duties of a receiver.
- phosphoreceiversplural of phosphoreceiver: The part of a molecule (typically a protein) that receives a phosphoryl group from a phosphodonor
- photoreceiversplural of photoreceiver: photodetector
- subreceiversplural of subreceiver: A secondary receiver; one who receives goods from another receiver.
- telereceiversplural of telereceiver: The receiving device in a teletransmission system.