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receiver
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman receverre, receivour et al., later also reformed as receive +? -er. Compare recevor, rescaivour.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???siv?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /???si?v?/
- Rhymes: -i?v?(?)
Noun
receiver (plural receivers)
- A person.
- (now historical) An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer. [from 14th c.]
- A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient. [from 14th c.]
- 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.
- 1850, Charles Dickens, "The Begging-Letter Writer", Household Words
- A person who accepts stolen goods. [from 14th c.]
- A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity. [from 18th c.]
- Synonyms: insolvency administrator, insolvency practitioner, liquidator, administrator, court administrator, trustee in bankruptcy
- (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed. [from 19th c.]
- (racquet sports) A person who attempts to return the serve. [from 20th c.]
- An item or apparatus.
- Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle. [from 14th c.]
- (chemistry) A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases. [from 16th c.]
- (now chiefly historical) An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum. [from 17th c.]
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 839:
- A man can live in thick air, but perishes in an exhausted receiver.
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 839:
- (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action. [from 19th c.]
- (now historical) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine. [from 19th c.]
- Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such. [from 19th c.]
- 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.
- The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece. [from 19th c.]
- (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.
Coordinate terms
- (electronic device that receives signals and converts them into sound or vision): transmitter-receiver, transceiver
Derived terms
- receivership
Translations
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acceptable
English
Alternative forms
- acceptible (dated)
Etymology
From Middle English acceptable, from Old French acceptable, from Late Latin accept?bilis (“worthy of acceptance”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æk.?s?p.t?.b?l/
Adjective
acceptable (comparative more acceptable, superlative most acceptable)
- worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or received with at least moderate pleasure
- Barely worthy, less than excellent; passable.
Antonyms
- unacceptable
- inacceptable
Derived terms
- acceptableness
- acceptably
Related terms
- acceptability
Translations
Further reading
- acceptable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- acceptable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- acceptable at OneLook Dictionary Search
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin accept?bilis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?k.s?p?ta.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ak.sep?ta.ble/
- Rhymes: -a?le
Adjective
acceptable (masculine and feminine plural acceptables)
- acceptable
- Antonym: inacceptable
Derived terms
- acceptablement
- inacceptable
Further reading
- “acceptable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “acceptable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “acceptable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “acceptable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Adjective
acceptable
- definite singular of acceptabel
- plural of acceptabel
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin accept?bilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ak.s?p.tabl/
Adjective
acceptable (plural acceptables)
- acceptable
Antonyms
- inacceptable
Related terms
- accepter
Further reading
- “acceptable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish
Adjective
acceptable
- absolute definite natural masculine form of acceptabel.
Anagrams
- acceptabel
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