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The thing that turns chaos into signal, whether on a field or a phone line.
means A person or device that receives something — a player who catches a thrown ball, the part of a phone you listen through, an electronic unit that picks up and decodes a signal, or a person appointed to take charge of someone else's property.
from From the verb 'receive,' which entered English through Old French 'receivre,' from Latin 'recipere' — built from 're-' (back) and 'capere' (to take or seize). So a receiver is literally one who 'takes back' or takes in: the same Latin 'capere' that gives us 'capture' and 'capable.' The '-er' agent suffix simply names the one (or thing) doing the receiving.
- phone origin
- Bell's first receiver doubled as the transmitter
- radio guts
- Superheterodyne design from 1918 still rules tuners
- legal role
- Courts appoint receivers to seize failing companies
- football odds
- Wide receivers run routes timed to the millisecond
- crystal sets
- Early radios needed no power, just a wire
rob gronkowski — tight end with 185 nfl receptions for 2,871 yards, 5x super bowl champion
jerry rice — wide receiver with 1,549 career nfl receptions, widely considered the goat
travis kelce — tight end with 950+ career receptions, 3x super bowl champion with kansas city