Receiver vs Incompletion - What's the difference?
receiver | incompletion |
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.
(uncountable) The state or quality of not being complete
(countable) Something which is not completed
(countable, American football) A forward pass which is not caught inbounds by the intended receiver
As nouns the difference between receiver and incompletion
is that receiver is a person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something while incompletion is (uncountable) the state or quality of not being complete.receiver
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(en noun)Derived terms
* receivershipSynonyms
* recipient (more formal, usually referring to one who receives such things as an award or medal)incompletion
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(en noun)- Their strong defense forced three incompletions from the other team.