What is the difference between receiver and recipient?
receiver | recipient | Synonyms |
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.
One who receives, such as one who receives money or goods.
(medicine) An individual receiving donor organs or tissues.
(chemistry) The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.