Dictionary

receptor en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɹɪˈsɛp.tə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• [ɹəˈsep.tʰə] Australia, weak vowel merger
• [ɹɘˈse̝p.tʰɘ] (New-Zealand)
• /ɹɘˈse̝p.tɘ/ (New-Zealand)
• /ɹɪˈsɛp.tɚ/ weak vowel distinction
• [ɹəˈsɛp.tʰɚ] ~ [ɹəˈsɛp.tʰɹ̩] weak vowel merger
• /ɹəˈsɛp.tɚ/ weak vowel merger
• [ɹɪˈsɛp.tʰəː] (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɹəˈsep.tə/ Australia, weak vowel merger
• [ɹɪˈsɛp.tʰɚ] ~ [ɹɪˈsɛp.tʰɹ̩] weak vowel distinction
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Etymology

From Middle English receptour, from Old French receptour or Latin receptōrius, from recipiō (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to hold”).

Meanings

1. A protein on a cell wall that binds with specific molecules so that they can be absorbed into the cell in order to control certain functions.
   • White blood cells of the immune system, the gut and the spleen also have another type of cannabinoid receptor, known as CB2. 2019 May 14, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Can CBD Really Do All That?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
   • In the target organ, the drug is recognised by ‘receptors’. These are large molecules, usually proteins, to which the drug binds tightly and with a high degree of specificity. 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 24:
2. Any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli.
3. (obsolete) One who receives something or someone; in particular, one who harbors a fugitive.
   • The kind Receptors of the Fugitiues after the Detection. 1609, William Barlow, Answer to a nameless Catholic's censure, page 13:
   • […] fewe that were there did spend the same daie abowte the searchinge out of sundrye that were receptors of ffelons, where we fownd a greate manye aswell in London, Westminster, Sowthwarke, as in all other places abowte the same. 1585, Fleetwood, in 1824, Henry Ellis, Original letters, illustrative of English history, page 297
   • An act […] Against pyrats, their assistors or abettors, out-traidors or receptors, against breakers of the admirall's arrestments and attachments against goods forbidden, 1660, Virginia statue, The Statutes at Large, Virginia, published 1809, page 538:

Forms

Coordinates

resetter · receiptor

Deriveds

enteroreceptor · bioreceptor · metaboreceptor · nonreceptor · protoreceptor · purinoceptor · magnetoreceptor · neuroreceptor · sartan · neutroceptor · receptomics · continuous erythropoietin receptor activator · glycoreceptor · ceptor · thermohygroreceptor · interreceptor · counterreceptor · isoreceptor · -nercept · aporeceptor · receptorome · gasoreceptor · pseudoreceptor · perireceptor · xenoreceptor · postreceptor · phosphoreceptor · receptome · holoreceptor · minireceptor · selective androgen receptor modulator · autoreceptor · nercept · angiotensin receptor blocker · electroreceptor · exteroreceptor · immunoreceptor · TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome · osmoreceptor · receptorless · adrenoreceptor · hydroreceptor · receptoral · receptomic · gravireceptor · mechanoreceptor · radioreceptor · heteroreceptor · multireceptor · chemoreceptor · coreceptor · thermoreceptor

Hyponyms

glucocorticoid receptor · acetylcholine receptor · beneceptor · orphan receptor · alpha-receptor · opioid receptor · nociceptor · aquareceptor · adrenergic receptor · toll-like receptor · hygroreceptor · interoceptor · cannabinoid receptor · exteroceptor · Fc receptor · gasoreceptor · proprioceptor · mechanoreceptorial · juxtacapillary receptor · chimeric antigen receptor · co-receptor · purinergic receptor · J receptor · granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor · nicotinic acetylcholine receptor · photoreceptor

Relateds

effector

Translations (36)

tr almaç (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · fr récepteur (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · ro receptor (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · ar مُسْتَقْبِل (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · cmn 受體 /受体 (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · ga gabhdóir (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · fi reseptori (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · yue 受體 /受体 (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · kk қабылдағыш (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · kmr wergir (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · mi paerongo (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · cs přijímač (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · cs receptor (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · de Rezeptor (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · fr récepteur (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · fi reseptori (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · id reseptor (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · tr reseptör (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · ga gabhdóir (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · de Rezeptor (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · pl receptor (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · ru реце́птор (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · id reseptor (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · es receptor (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · pt receptor (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · kmr xaneya wergir (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · it recettore (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · es receptor (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · es receptor (one who receives something or someone) · de Rezeptorzelle (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · ro receptor (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli) · hi लाभार्थी (one who receives something or someone) · pt receptor (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · kk рецептор (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · it recettore (any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli) · pl receptor (a protein on a cell wall that responds to sensory stimuli)