What's the difference between receipt and receiver?

Receipt


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of receiving; reception.
  • (n.) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
  • (n.) Capability of receiving; capacity.
  • (n.) Place of receiving.
  • (n.) Hence, a recess; a retired place.
  • (n.) A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.
  • (n.) A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.
  • (n.) That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.
  • (v. t.) To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.
  • (v. t.) To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.
  • (v. i.) To give a receipt, as for money paid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
  • (2) The public finance forecasts are linked to those growth predictions, since stronger growth means healthier tax receipts and lower spending on unemployment benefit and other welfare measures.
  • (3) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
  • (4) The ONS said it was possible that these one-off items and a rise in tax receipts in January could bring the overall debt figure within the OBR's £80.5bn forecast.
  • (5) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
  • (6) However, rights being accrued are outstripping receipts.
  • (7) In addition, we found that maternal receipt of magnesium sulfate was associated with diminished risk of GMH-IVH even in those babies born to mothers who apparently did not have preeclampsia.
  • (8) The mean time from initiation of surgery to the surgeon's receipt of the frozen section diagnosis was 0.9 hours.
  • (9) The survey results and the fact that 25% of the stores made changes after receipt of a letter indicate that occupational therapists can be effective advocates for accessibility and thus provide a vital link to productive living for persons in wheelchairs.
  • (10) The first minister insisted that Scotland had a vibrant economy, saying overall tax receipts including North Sea oil were £400 per head higher from Scotland in 2013-14 than the UK average.
  • (11) "When you have 54% of students in receipt of EMA, clearly that is a very widely framed benefit.
  • (12) Yet figures show that of the students graduating last year, there were 10,670 who had been in receipt of free school meals.
  • (13) It is possible in the UK to carry out a phased approach to drug development that is designed to assist in the selection of a candidate drug for development from a series of compounds; minimize the amount of animal work (toxicological and metabolic) necessary to permit early evaluation in man; introduce a more rational basis for decision making by setting criteria that must be satisfied before entry can be made into the next phase of development; obtain safety, pharmacokinetic, and possibly dynamic data in man within about 16 months of receipt of the compound.
  • (14) Receipt of large amounts of anti-HBS may be associated with an increased incidence of HB events.
  • (15) Case and noncase infants were similar with respect to other complications and to receipt of medications and parenteral nutrition.
  • (16) The method was able to determine subpopulations of individual cells that secreted antibody in less than fifteen hours after receipt of a conventional cell suspension.
  • (17) The procedure is fast enough (21 min from receipt of blood to reporting value) to be used for emergency determinations.
  • (18) What I've been told is that the Electoral Commission in 2009 looked at this exhaustively – as far as the receipt of that money by the Liberal Democrats from one of his companies.
  • (19) These receipts, known as "running cash notes", were made out in the name of the depositor and promised to pay him on demand.
  • (20) The public purse was helped by a 3.7% increase in tax receipts against a backdrop of economic growth and falling unemployment.

Receiver


Definition:

  • (n.) One who takes or receives in any manner.
  • (n.) A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases.
  • (n.) One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
  • (n.) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.
  • (n.) A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
  • (n.) The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump.
  • (n.) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.
  • (n.) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
  • (n.) That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril.
  • (2) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (3) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (4) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
  • (5) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
  • (6) Arterial oxyhaemoglobin saturation (SaO2) was monitored continuously during normal labour in 33 healthy parturients receiving pethidine and nitrous oxide for analgesia.
  • (7) The control group received the same information in lecture form.
  • (8) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
  • (9) Therefore, we undertook a follow-up study on the survivors of 57 infants who received IUT's between 1966 and 1975.
  • (10) If Bennett were sentenced today under the new law, he likely would not receive a life sentence.
  • (11) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
  • (12) In a randomized double-blind study, 40 patients with coronary heart disease received intravenously either 0.025 mg nitroglycerin or placebo.
  • (13) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
  • (14) Three patients died from non-hepatic causes and another has received liver transplantation.
  • (15) Malondialdehyde was undetectable in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid placement of agarose alone, although it was present in similar amounts in all groups that received subarachnoid placement of OxyHb.
  • (16) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
  • (17) From 1978 to 1983 in the Orthopedic University Clinic (Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin) 75 children with fractures of the distal humerus received medical treatment.
  • (18) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  • (19) Data were collected on a sample of 131 women receiving treatment for gynecological cancer.
  • (20) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.