receiverとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈsivɚ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈsiːvə/
• 韻: -iːvə(ɹ)

名詞

receiver (複数形 receivers)

1. A person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something. More formal, usually referring to one who receives such things as an award or medal.

   Synonym: recipient

   • 1850, Charles Dickens, "The Begging-Letter Writer", Household Words

     I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.

   1. A trustee appointed to hold and administer property involved in litigation.
   2. A person appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
      • 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 585:

        It took the name Midland & South Western Junction in 1884 and reached Cheltenham, with its M.R. connection, in 1891; but poverty continued - a receiver had been appointed in 1884.

      Synonyms: insolvency administrator, insolvency practitioner, liquidator, administrator, court administrator, trustee in bankruptcy

   3. A tax collector.
   4. A person who accepts stolen goods.
   5. Any of several electronic devices that receive signals and convert them into sound or vision.

      Antonym: transmitter

      • 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)

        The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.

      1. A telephone handset.
      2. A smartphone earpiece.
   6. (米国用法 football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
   7. (tennis) A person who attempts to return the ball after it has been served.
   8. An element of a mechanical or other system or device designed to accept another element.
      1. (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.
      2. A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
      3. A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
      4. (chemistry) A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.
      5. (chemistry) The glass vessel of an air pump in which the vacuum is formed.
   9. (finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg.

等位語

• (electronic device that receives signals かつ converts them into sound または vision): transmitter-receiver, transceiver

派生語

• receivership