different between receiver vs tuner

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman receverre, receivour et al., later also reformed as receive +? -er. Compare recevor, rescaivour.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???siv?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???si?v?/
• Rhymes: -i?v?(?)

Noun

receiver (plural receivers)

1. A person.
   1. (now historical) An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer. [from 14th c.]
   2. A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient. [from 14th c.]
      • 1850, Charles Dickens, "The Begging-Letter Writer", Household Words

        I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.

   3. A person who accepts stolen goods. [from 14th c.]
   4. A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity. [from 18th c.]

      Synonyms: insolvency administrator, insolvency practitioner, liquidator, administrator, court administrator, trustee in bankruptcy

   5. (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed. [from 19th c.]
   6. (racquet sports) A person who attempts to return the serve. [from 20th c.]
2. An item or apparatus.
   1. Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle. [from 14th c.]
   2. (chemistry) A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases. [from 16th c.]
   3. (now chiefly historical) An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum. [from 17th c.]
      • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 839:

        A man can live in thick air, but perishes in an exhausted receiver.

   4. (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action. [from 19th c.]
   5. (now historical) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine. [from 19th c.]
   6. Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such. [from 19th c.]

      Antonym: transmitter

      • 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)

        The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.

   7. The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece. [from 19th c.]
   8. (finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg.

Coordinate terms

• (electronic device that receives signals and converts them into sound or vision): transmitter-receiver, transceiver

Derived terms

• receivership

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?tu?.n?/, /?tju?.n?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?u?.n?/ IPA^(key): /?tju?.n?/
• Rhymes: -u?n?(r)
• Homophone: tuna

Etymology 1

From tune (verb) +? -er.

Noun

tuner (plural tuners)

1. A person who tunes a piano or organ.
2. A device, electronic or mechanical, that helps a person tune a musical instrument by showing the deviation of the played pitch from the desired pitch.
3. On a musical instrument, a peg or mechanical device that changes the tension, and hence pitch, of a string.
4. The component of an audio system that receives radio broadcasts.
5. (archaic) One who sings or makes music.

Translations

See also

• amplifier
• high fidelity
• TV tuner

Etymology 2

tune (noun) +? -er (“Variety -er”)

Noun

tuner (plural tuners)

1. (entertainment industry) A musical.

Anagrams

• Runet, Runte

French

Etymology 1

From English tuner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.nœ?/

Noun

tuner m (plural tuners)

1. tuner TV, radio

Synonyms

• syntoniseur (Europe)
• syntonisateur (Canada)

Etymology 2

From English tune.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.ne/

Verb

tuner

1. to tune a vehicle etc

Conjugation

Anagrams

• ruent

Further reading

• “tuner” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).