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receiver | preserve |

As a noun receiver

is a person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something.

As a verb preserve is

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receiver

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * receivership

    Synonyms

    * recipient (more formal, usually referring to one who receives such things as an award or medal)

    preserve

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

  • A sweet spread made of any of a variety of berries.
  • A reservation, a nature preserve.
  • *1881 , :
  • *:Suppose Shakespeare had been knocked on the head some dark night in preserves , the world would have wagged on better or worse, the pitcher gone to the well, the scythe to the corn, and the student to his book; and no one been any the wiser of the loss.
  • An activity with restricted access.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= T time , passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.}}

    Usage notes

    More often used in the plural, as strawberry preserves'', but the form without the ''-s can also be used as the plural form, or to refer to a single type.

    Synonyms

    * jam * jelly * marmalade

    See also

    * preserver

    Verb

    (preserv)
  • To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now, good angels preserve the king.
  • * (Yuri Gagarin)
    • Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it.
  • To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.
    • to preserve peaches or grapes
  • To maintain throughout; to keep intact.
    • to preserve''' appearances; to '''preserve silence

    Anagrams

    * perverse ----