Search:receiver -> RECEIVER
receiver
r e c e i v e r hex:#114;#101;#99;#101;#105;#118;#101;#114;
The Salt of the World?
- Receiver - n. - One who takes or receives in any manner.
- Receiver - 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.
- Receiver - n. - One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
- Receiver - n. - A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.
- Receiver - n. - A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
- Receiver - 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.
- Receiver - n. - A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.
- Receiver - n. - A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
- Receiver - n. - That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.
- Receivership - n. - The state or office of a receiver.
- Logothete - - An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.
- Conceptacle - n. - That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle.
- Retort - v. t. - A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.
- Bisque - n. - A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.
- Tollhouse - n. - A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.
- Fence - n. - A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received.
- Questor - n. - An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state.
- Chamberlain - n. - A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.
- Recipient - n. - A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a still.
- Elatrometer - n. - An instrument for measuring the degree of rarefaction of air contained in the receiver of an air pump.
- Drum - n. - A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.
- Record - v. t. - An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.
KJVBibleSite-master text
phpBible_av:text