Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Definitioner

Substantiv

1. A person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something.
2. A trustee appointed to hold and administer property involved in litigation.
3. A person appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
4. A person who accepts stolen goods.
5. Any of several electronic devices that receive signals and convert them into sound or vision.
6. A telephone handset.
7. (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
8. (tennis) A person who attempts to return the ball after it has been served.
9. An element of a mechanical or other system or device designed to accept another element.
10. (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.
11. A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
12. A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.