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 |
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 |
Re-sound (v. t. & i.) To sound again or anew. |
Sensor (a.) Sensory |
Sound (n.) The air bladder of a fish |
Sound (n.) A cuttlefish. |
Sound (superl.) Whole |
Sound (superl.) Healthy |
Sound (superl.) Firm |
Sound (superl.) Free from error |
Sound (superl.) Founded in truth or right |
Sound (superl.) heavy |
Sound (superl.) Undisturbed |
Sound (superl.) Founded in law |
Sound (adv.) Soundly. |
Sound (n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island |
Sound (v. t.) To measure the depth of |
Sound (v. t.) Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person) |
Sound (v. t.) To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound |
Sound (v. i.) To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device. |
Sound (n.) Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture. |
Sound (n.) The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear |
Sound (n.) The occasion of sound |
Sound (n.) Noise without signification |
Sound (v. i.) To make a noise |
Sound (v. i.) To be conveyed in sound |
Sound (v. i.) To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard |
Sound (v. t.) To causse to make a noise |
Sound (v. t.) To cause to exit as a sound |
Sound (v. t.) To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds |
Sound (v. t.) To celebrate or honor by sounds |
Sound (v. t.) To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character |
Sound (v. t.) To signify |
Sound-board (n.) A sounding-board. |
listening watch continuous receiver watch | a watch established for the reception of traffic of interest to the unit maintaining the watch |
sound ranging | locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions |
sound reproduction | the reproduction of sound |
audio system sound system | a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound |
detector sensor sensing element | any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner |
heterodyne receiver superheterodyne receiver superhet | a radio receiver that combines a locally generated frequency with the carrier frequency to produce a supersonic signal that is demodulated and amplified |
hi-fi high fidelity sound system | equipment for the reproduction of sound with high fidelity |
radio receiver receiving set radio set radio tuner wireless | an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals |
receiver receiving system | set that receives radio or tv signals |
satellite receiver | a receiver on a communications satellite |
sound bow | contact (the part of a bell) against which the clapper strikes |
sound camera | a movie camera that records sounds in synchrony with the visual images |
sound film | motion-picture film with sound effects and dialogue recorded on it |
sound hole | a hole in a soundboard (as of a violin) designed to resonate with the tones |
sound recording audio recording audio | a recording of acoustic signals |
sound spectrograph | a spectrograph for acoustic spectra |
sound truck | a truck equipped with a loudspeaker and used for advertising |
telephone receiver receiver | earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds |
television receiver television television set tv tv set idiot box boob tube telly goggle box | an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen, the British call a tv set a telly |
judgment judgement sound judgment sound judgement perspicacity | the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions |
sound | the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause, the sound of rain on the roof, the beautiful sound of music |
sound property | an attribute of sound |
echo reverberation sound reflection replication | the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves, she could hear echoes of her own footsteps |
acoustic power sound pressure level | the physical intensity of sound |
auditory perception sound perception | the perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon |
sound auditory sensation | the subjective sensation of hearing something, he strained to hear the faint sounds |
sound effect | an effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play |
morphology sound structure syllable structure word structure | the admissible arrangement of sounds in words |
sound law | a law describing sound changes in the history of a language |
audio sound | the audible part of a transmitted signal, they always raise the audio for commercials |
phonetic alphabet sound alphabet | an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech |
phone speech sound sound | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language |
vowel vowel sound | a speech sound made with the vocal tract open |
stop consonant stop occlusive plosive consonant plosive speech sound plosive | a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it, his stop consonants are too aspirated |
sonant voiced sound | a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords |
sound bite | a very short speech, usually on radio or television |
sound wave acoustic wave | (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound |
sound | the sudden occurrence of an audible event, the sound awakened them |
Long Island Sound | a sound between Long Island and Connecticut |
Puget Sound | an inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State |
Queen Charlotte Sound | an inlet of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia |
sound | a large ocean inlet or deep bay, the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast |
strait sound | a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water |
recipient receiver | a person who receives something |
liquidator receiver | (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties |
receiver pass receiver pass catcher | a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass |
receiver | the tennis player who receives the serve |
sound | mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium, falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them |
sound pressure instantaneous sound pressure | the difference between the instantaneous pressure at a point in a sound field and the average pressure at that point |
sonic barrier sound barrier | the increase in aerodynamic drag as an airplane approaches the speed of sound |