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Transmitter   /trænsmˈɪtər/   Listen
Transmitter

noun
1.
Someone who transmits a message.  Synonym: sender.
2.
Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease.  Synonym: vector.  "Fleas are vectors of the plague" , "Aphids are transmitters of plant diseases" , "When medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects"
3.
Set used to broadcast radio or tv signals.  Synonym: sender.



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"Transmitter" Quotes from Famous Books



... wait a minute, Bingle," came Mr. Force's agitated voice through the transmitter. "For heaven's sake, don't fly off the handle like this. I—I thought I was acting for the best interests of every one. I was only trying to ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon

... that's cutting the mustard," he murmured sotto voce, "and there goes another bright day-dream." Unknown to himself, he spoke directly into the transmitter, and Shirley, clinging half hopefully to the receiver at the other end of the wire, heard him— caught every inflection of the words, commonplace enough, but freighted with the pathos of Bryce's ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne

... dearest hopes seem blighted and despair looms into view, Set your jaw and whisper grimly, "Though they're false, yet I'll be true." Never let your heart grow bitter; With your lips to Hope's transmitter, Hear Love's songbirds bravely twitter, ...
— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris

... receiver and transmitter of thought, and all minds are directly connected with each other by an invisible force. Thought is an element of life and exists everywhere; it is not originated by the mind, but is a utility for it. Thoughts are sustenance for the brain, as air is for the lungs, or food for ...
— Born Again • Alfred Lawson

... man-killing space-ship? Reason told him that they were gone. They must be gone, or else his ultra-beams—energies of such unthinkable velocity of propagation that man's most sensitive instruments had never been able even to estimate it—would have held the ship's transmitter in spite of any velocity attainable by any matter under any conceivable conditions. The ship must have been disintegrated as soon as Rodebush released his forces. And yet, had not the physicist dimly ...
— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith


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