If the receiver is not ready when the service is delivered, a let shall be called ; yet, if the receiver attempts to return the shuttlecock, he shall be judged to have been ready.

If the pass is received by a non-eligible receiver, the penalty for the foul " illegal touching " is assessed ( the play is treated as an incomplete pass, unless the ball is downed behind the line of scrimmage — in either case a down is lost ).

If an ineligible receiver is beyond the neutral zone when a forward pass which crosses the neutral zone is thrown, a foul of " ineligible receiver downfield " ( penalty — a loss of yardage, but not loss of down ) is called.

If, for example, eight men line up on the line of scrimmage, the team loses an eligible receiver.

If an eligible receiver on the passing team legally catches the ball it is a complete pass and the receiver may attempt to advance the ball.

If a forward pass is caught near a sideline or endline it is a complete pass ( or an interception ) only if a receiver catches the ball in bounds.

" If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself ; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.

If the positions of the two synchronized stations are known, then the position of the receiver can be determined as being somewhere on a particular hyperbolic curve where the time difference between the received signals is constant.

If a series of messages are sent to the same receiver as in the example above, they can also be written as a cascade with individual messages separated by semicolons:

If the second service is also a fault, the server double faults, and the receiver wins the point.

If the receiver does, in fact, win their break point, the game is awarded to the receiver, and the receiver is said to have converted their break point.

If the receiver fails to win their break point it is called a failure to convert.

If the serve is a clear failure or is doubted again by the umpire after the warning, receiver scores a point.

If the service is " good ", then the receiver must make a " good " return by hitting the ball back before it bounces a second time on receiver's side of the table so that the ball passes the net and touches the opponent's court, either directly or after touching the net assembly.

If the expedite system is introduced while the ball is not in play, the previous receiver shall serve first.

If there is an object in the path of this pulse, part or all of the pulse will be reflected back to the transmitter as an echo and can be detected through the receiver path.

If a receiver is connected to the system in the middle of a frame transmission, it ignores the data until it detects a new frame synchronization sequence.

If the transmission is temporarily interrupted, or a bit slip event occurs, the receiver must re-synchronize.

If unobstructed, radio waves will travel in a straight line from the transmitter to the receiver.

If an opposing player legally catches the ball ( all defensive players are eligible receivers ) it is an interception.

If the first syllable is high then the meaning changes to ' the little one catches ' ( third person singular present tense Class VI ka-of-baka ' to catch ').

If the leotard catches on an apparatus, the gymnast may fall.

If a fire catches, it could spread, taking in adjacent buildings that would have been largely unaffected by a high explosive bomb.

If a member of the receiving team catches the disc cleanly, neither team scores a point.

If the throw is within the scoring area and the receiving team fails to catch, or catches but drops the disc, the throwing team gets a point.

* If the Heeler catches only one leg there is a 5-second penalty

He spots a small boy singing " If a body catches a body coming through the rye ," which somehow makes Holden feel less depressed.

If not, he must stand 10m away from the player who catches the ball ( as if he were the acting half-back at a play-the-ball ) or be penalised.

If a player catches a ball thrown by the opposing team on the full, then the player who threw the ball is eliminated, and the team that caught the ball can reinstate the player that has been out the longest ( or the player ( s ) whom the thrower eliminated ).

If a boat turns to leeward too far, or sails " by the lee ", the boat can jibe accidentally if the lee side of the sail catches the wind, causing the boom to swing across the boat quickly.

If the tailhook catches a cable the aircraft will stop in short order regardless.

If a fielder from the opposing team catches the gilli, the striker is out.

If an observer runs away from a photon in the direction it travels from a source, having it catch up with the observer, then when the photon catches up it will be seen as having less energy than it had at the source.

If a freshman catches a senior not participating, that senior may be made to sing on the senior table in the dining hall.

If " it " catches all of the players he or she wins that round and generally a new " it " is designated for the next round.

If he catches Durdles out after 10 pm, he throws rocks at him until he goes home.

If the player simply catches the humanoid in mid-air while above the ground, the wave ends with the player only receiving the 500 points for catching the humanoid.

If the leader falls, the belayer locks off the rope and, assuming the protection doesn't pull out, catches the leader's fall on the rope.

If a Ghost player catches Pac-Man, the two players switch controllers, with the successful Ghost player taking the GBA and playing as Pac-Man until he or she suffers the same fate of being caught.

If the line-out player catches the ball he may hold on to it and allow a maul to form, or pass it to another player.

If a player catches the thrown disc without its touching the ground, either before or after being hit by it, or before or after it hits another player, then the player who threw the disc is out instead.