You will remain motionless in your present position, keeping your radio receiver open for further instructions.
The radioreceiver was tuned to the wave-length given in the log.
My dinner is spoiling--" The receiver dropped from my hand and clattered against the wall.
I asked, excusably nettled, and stepping to the telephone, I took the receiverfrom its hook.
Miss Miller took up the receiver and answered the call.
Then the receiver came up, bowed low before the blanket, and received the gift.
The other girls laughed and Miss Miller immediately took up the telephone receiver and called up a department store.
We started from earth at our midnight exactly, and at midnight exactly twenty-four earth hours later, we are to flash back and the receiver will be awaiting us.
For when the matter-receiver of that station is turned on in twenty-four of your hours, and ready to receive matter flashes from here, it will be the first of our millions who will flash at last to earth!
At the hour of twelve Nelson will have the matter-receiver turned on and at that hour the Martian will start flashing to earth--unless we prevent!
This the Martians told us, and said they would set up a matter-transmitter and receiver on Mars and would aid and instruct us so that we could set up a similar transmitter and receiver here.
Those first to go shall seize that matter-receiver on earth when first they appear there, shall build other and larger receivers, and through them within days all our Martian hordes shall have been flashed to earth!
You heard the Martian Master--in constructing that matter-receiver on earth, we've opened a door through which all the Martian millions will pour onto our world!
It was already in operation, and the masses of Martians in the great cone were only waiting for the moment to sound when the receiver on earth would be operating also.
Then those vibrations can be flashed forth from the sending station to a special receiver that will step them down again from radio vibrations to matter vibrations.
Twenty-four earth hours," it said; "and then your receiver on earth will be awaiting you.
To enter that transmitting chamber before the destined moment was annihilation, to be flashed out with no receiver on earth awaiting them.
You are the Earth-beings with whom we communicated, and whom we instructed to build a matter-transmitter and receiver on earth?
Unless the one at your earth station has its receiver operating at the right moment you will simply flash on endlessly as radio waves--will be annihilated.
Char banged the receiver down impatiently with one hand, while the other continued to make rapid calculations on a large sheet of foolscap.
Lady Vivian stamped her foot noiselessly as her husband's voice reached her; but when Sir Piers had put back the receiver and come slowly into the room, she greeted him with a smile.
She hung up the receiver quickly, to cut short a fresh outburst of protest.
Sally's face was twisted and the receiver shook in her hand.
From the first point it had already resulted that the diaphragm was no more indispensable in the receiver than it was in the transmitter, as I have already shown (Comptes Rendus, t.
It has been possible to put the vibrations of the core and helix beyond a doubt only by employing very energetic transmitter currents, or very simplified and special arrangements of the receiver (Ader, Du Moncel, and others).
On the Theory of the Receiver of the Electro-magnetic Telephone.
Fanny jammed the receiver down on the hook and turned to her work, lips compressed, a frown forming a double cleft between her eyes.
He hung up the receiver and was about to ring for his secretary, when his memory was arrested by the picture of Barbara springing to her feet, reviling him, collapsing on the sofa and bursting into tears.
I'm supposed to be ill," she answered and hung up the receiver before he could say anything more.
Ten minutes later Lady Crawleigh came in to find Barbara in bed with the telephone tucked under one arm and the receiver to her ear.
He unhooked the receiver and tossed it on to his bed; but after a moment's silence there broke out a persistent metallic buzzing, while the bells in the other rooms rang with all their accustomed clarity.
He put up thereceiver before Gladys could ask any more questions, and felt ready to cry again.
Into thereceiver she said, "But, Ted, what'll they say at the bank?
But her putting-up of the receiver cut them off from each other.
He put up the receiver on saying this, so that Jennie was left all in the air with her love and her distress.
Junia whispered, as her husband hung thereceiver in its place.
There was silence for several moments in the room, while Sam talked, and then with a goodbye, Garry replaced the receiver on the hook, and turned around to face his companions.
He listened a moment, then hung up thereceiver and turned to the boys.
This is an emergency, so rush it through," and he replaced the receiver on the hook.
They chatted for a little while and after Georgia had hung up the receiver she sat there looking straight into the phone--her face as dreamy as Georgia's freckled face well could be.
He hung up the receiver and sat there a minute in deep thought, seeming to concentrate his whole being upon this patient now commanding him.
Blunt of speech, the receiver of the ecclesiastical revenues did not measure his terms, every syllable of which found an echo in the heart of the accountant-general, who was an old and fast friend of the navigator.
Hath the Moor another kingdom of which to be despoiled," she asked; "or would the receiver of the church's revenues have us war upon the Holy See?
Governor Sarrio, as vicepatron, appointed Oidor Calderon as receiver and administrator of the funds, with the charge that the oidor should suspend all payments until the accounts were straightened out.
Smiling, Lanyard replaced the receiver and rang for the waiter.
Without premonition he picked up the combination receiver and transmitter.
The balance acts precisely like the key of a Morse machine, and the break precisely like the sounder-receiver so well known in telegraphy.
B, receiver into which the tube, T, fits quite loosely.
Between the giver and the receiver of a favor there is this law, that the former should forthwith forget having given, and the latter should never forget having received.
This happens in simony, wherein both giver and receiver contravene the justice of the Divine Law, so that restitution is to be made not to the giver, but by giving alms.
Such a man deserves to lose what he gave, wherefore restitution should not be made to him: and, since the receiver acted against the law in receiving, he must not retain the price, but must use it for some pious object.
Thirdly, in the case of receiving; when, to wit, a man is a receiver of thieves, and gives them assistance.
Now sometimes a man gives unlawfully that which another accepts unlawfully, as in the case of the giver and receiver who are guilty of simony.
He took up the telephone receiver and sent the plug into the orifice under the label, "Co.
Shirley held the receiver to his ear, as the young man spoke.
Then it would look like plain robbery, and when he goes to take the receiver off the hook it's 'good-night, nursey!
Van Cleft lifted the receiver nervously, and answered in an unsteady voice.
The receiver was hung up quickly at the other end of the line.
Let's get this in readiness then, and if you get any calls have them switched up to this instrument, so that when you talk, you can hold the receiver handy to the horn.
Thank you," said the voice again in a crushed sort of way, and the receiver was hung up.
Kenneth flushed red as he held the receiver to his ear, and then grew white.
When he hung up thereceiver Uncle John was smiling.
With hands that shook terribly, Pauline replaced the receiver on the bracket and came round from behind the Indian screen, walking towards the door.
He put down the receiver upon the table and ran up to Peggy, who was shaking like a leaf in the wind.
He placed the receiver of the telephone back upon its rest, and turned the handle to ring off.
Then without a further word she fluttered towards the door of her bedroom, dropping the receiver of the telephone, which hung by its twisted cord and swung this way and that.
He caught up the receiver again and pressed it to his ear, leaning forward to the mouthpiece.
Still holding the receiver in her hand, the woman staggered back from the mouthpiece.
He listened for nearly half a minute, taut and strained as a greyhound on the leash; then he flung the receiver angrily upon the bracket.
She fluttered up to the telephone, caught the receiver to her ear, and spoke breathlessly: "Well, who is it?
As the day progressed he stood with one hand on the tape of his private ticker and the other holding the receiver of the telephone which connected him with the floor of the Stock Exchange.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "receiver" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
