Attendee vs Receiver - What's the difference?
attendee | receiver |
A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event.
*2000 , Russian Government,
*:During the official performance of the National Anthem of the Russian Federation all attendees are supposed to stand and men take their hats off.
A visitor or participant of an event.
*2002 , Sam Williams,
*:O'Reilly, the summit host, remembers a particularly insightful comment from Torvalds, a summit attendee .
(uncommon) A person who is attended.
A person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something.
# A trustee appointed to hold and administer property involved in litigation.
# A person appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
# A person who accepts stolen goods.
# Any of several electronic devices that receive signals and convert them into sound or vision.
## A telephone handset.
# (label) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
# (label) A person who attempts to return the ball after it has been served.
# An element of a mechanical or other system or device designed to accept another element.
## (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.
## A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
## A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.