Crossword-Solution: RECEPTACLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Receptacle | n. | That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository. |
| Receptacle | n. | The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary. |
| Receptacle | n. | The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers. |
| Receptacle | n. | An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters. |
| Receptacle | n. | A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “RECEPTACLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Power outlet | 1 answer |
| Outlet for a plug | 1 answer |
| LADLE in foundry | 1 answer |
| Ballot box, e.g. | 1 answer |
| nidus | 3 answers |
| Wall socket | 3 answers |
| theca | 8 answers |
| Font | 8 answers |
| A CONTAINER THAT IS USED TO PUT OR KEEP THINGS IN | 11 answers |
| Tabernacle | 12 answers |
| ___ tray. | 12 answers |
| Folder. | 12 answers |
| BIN | 13 answers |
| wrapper | 20 answers |
| Receiver | 25 answers |
| Repository. | 26 answers |
| holder | 30 answers |
| flower part | 36 answers |
| BASKET ___ | 38 answers |
| __ bowl | 39 answers |
| storage place | 42 answers |
| Container. | 52 answers |
| Outlet | 55 answers |
| CAN ___ | 55 answers |
| CELL ___ | 57 answers |
| CHAMBER ___ | 59 answers |
| Vessel | 60 answers |
| Compartment | 64 answers |
| Wrap | 65 answers |
| __ box | 65 answers |
| Frame | 68 answers |
| __ bag | 71 answers |
| Jack | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RECEPTACLE (5)
The dry Land, Earth, and the great receptacle Of congregated Waters he call’d Seas: And saw that it was good, and said, Let th’ Earth Put forth the verdant Grass, Herb yeilding Seed, And Fruit Tree yeilding Fruit after her kind; Whose Seed is in her self upon the Earth.
This was a body resembling a milk can in its general form, above which oscillated a pear-shaped receptacle, and from which a stream of white powder flowed into a circular basin below.
She could become a mere receptacle for heat, or become a color, like the bright lizards that darted about on the hot stones outside her door; or she could become a continuous repetition of sound, like the cicadas.
Requesting Phœbe to roast some coffee,—which she casually observed was the real Mocha, and so long kept that each of the small berries ought to be worth its weight in gold,—the maiden lady heaped fuel into the vast receptacle of the ancient fireplace in such quantity as soon to drive the lingering dusk out of the kitchen.
The key was in the lock, and a few moments of investigation and experimentation were rewarded with the successful opening of the receptacle.
Quotes with RECEPTACLE (3)
You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No, no it's not books at all you're looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for i…
I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the Universe together into one garment for us.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2000–2014).