different between successor vs receiver

English

Alternative forms

• successour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman successour, from Latin successor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?k?s?s?(?)/, /?s?ks?s?(?)/, /?s?ks?s??(?)/, /?s?ks?s??/

Noun

successor (plural successors)

1. A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.

   George W. Bush was successor to Bill Clinton as President of the US.
2. The next heir in order or succession.
3. A person who inherits a title or office.
4. (arithmetic, set theory) The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another.

   A limit ordinal is not the successor of any ordinal.

Synonyms

• (person or thing that immediately follows another): aftercomer (uncommon); see also Thesaurus:successor

Antonyms

• (person or thing that immediately follows another): predecessor; see also Thesaurus:predecessor

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin successor.

Noun

successor m (plural successors, feminine successora)

1. successor

Related terms

• succeir

Further reading

• “successor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “successor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “successor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “successor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From succ?d?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /suk?kes.sor/, [s??k?k?s???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sut?t??es.sor/, [sut?t???s??r]

Noun

successor m (genitive success?ris, feminine succestr?x); third declension

1. follower, successor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• successor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• successor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• successor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin successor.

Noun

successor m (plural successors)

1. successor

Related terms

• succedir
• successiu

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)

1. A person.
   1. (now historical) An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer. [from 14th c.]
   2. 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.

   3. A person who accepts stolen goods. [from 14th c.]
   4. 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

   5. (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed. [from 19th c.]
   6. (racquet sports) A person who attempts to return the serve. [from 20th c.]
2. An item or apparatus.
   1. Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle. [from 14th c.]
   2. (chemistry) A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases. [from 16th c.]
   3. (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.

   4. (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action. [from 19th c.]
   5. (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.]
   6. 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.

   7. The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece. [from 19th c.]
   8. (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