All 3 Uses
receptive
in
Starship Troopers
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- The inside of the suit is a mass of pressure receptors, hundreds of them.†
Chpt 7 *
- You push with the heel of your hand; the suit feels it, amplifies it, pushes with you to take the pressure off the receptors that gave the order to push.†
Chpt 7
- Since your head is the one part of your body not involved in the pressure receptors controlling the suit's muscles, you use your head — your jaw muscles, your chin, your neck — to switch things for you and thereby leave your hands free to fight.†
Chpt 7
Definitions:
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(1)
(receptive) open to arguments, ideas, or change
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, receptive can mean that something is capable of receiving something else. In that instance, the thing that receives might be called a receptor as when referring to a molecule that receives and responds to a neurotransmitter.