Receive
[rɪ'siːv] or [rɪ'siv]
Definition
(verb.) convert into sounds or pictures; 'receive the incoming radio signals'.
(verb.) receive a specified treatment (abstract); 'These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation'; 'His movie received a good review'; 'I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions'.
(verb.) regard favorably or with disapproval; 'Her new collection of poems was not well received'.
(verb.) accept as true or valid; 'He received Christ'.
(verb.) partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament.
(verb.) express willingness to have in one's home or environs; 'The community warmly received the refugees'.
(verb.) get something; come into possession of; 'receive payment'; 'receive a gift'; 'receive letters from the front'.
(verb.) have or give a reception; 'The lady is receiving Sunday morning'.
Typist: Nelly--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.
(v. t.) Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.
(v. t.) To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.
(v. t.) To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.
(v. t.) To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.
(v. t.) To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.
(v. t.) To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.
(v. t.) To bat back (the ball) when served.
(v. i.) To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.
(v. i.) To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Take (what comes to hand), ACCEPT, derive, obtain, acquire, get.[2]. Admit, take in.[3]. Entertain, welcome, greet, not reject, not repel.[4]. Allow, permit, tolerate.[5]. Believe, embrace, give credence to.
Edited by Clare
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Take, accept, admit, hold, entertain, assent_to
ANT:Give, impart, afford, reject, discharge, emit
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Definition
v.t. to take what is offered: to accept: to embrace with the mind: to assent to: to allow: to give acceptance to: to give admittance to: to welcome or entertain: to hold or contain: (law) to take goods knowing them to be stolen: (B.) to bear with to believe in.—v.i. to be a recipient: to hold a reception of visitors.—n. Receivabil′ity Receiv′ableness the quality of being receivable.—adj. Receiv′able that may be received: a waiting payment as bills receivable.—ns. Receiv′edness the state or quality of being received or current; Receiv′er one who receives: an officer who receives taxes: a person appointed by a court to hold and manage property which is under litigation or receive the rents of land &c.: one who receives stolen goods: (chem.) a vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation or for containing gases: the glass vessel of an air-pump in which the vacuum is formed: the receiving part of a telegraph telephone &c.; Receiv′er-gen′eral an officer who receives the public revenue; Receiv′ership the office of a receiver; Receiv′ing the act of receiving; Receiv′ing-house a depé? a house where letters and parcels are left for transmission; Receiv′ing-in′strument an appliance by which operators at two telegraph stations can communicate; Receiv′ing-off′ice a branch post-office for receipt of letters &c.; Receiv′ing-ship a stationary ship for recruits for the navy.
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Examples
- But as Elizabeth could not receive comfort from any such expectation, she made no answer. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- When the science of static electricity was thus far developed, with a machine for generating it and a collector to receive it, many experiments followed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Where he can, your worship,' replied the officer; again pretending to receive Oliver's answer. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Receive at parting;' here he gave him a southern embrace, and kissed him soundly on both cheeks; 'the word of a gentleman! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And before God, replied his opponent, fervently, do I receive it! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yet the force of this mighty giant is so completely under control, and may be brought to act so gently, as scarcely to crack a nut placed to receive its fall. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I didn't expect to receive it, though. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There his work was received with applause. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Lily received this with fresh appreciation; his nonsense was like the bubbling of her inner mood. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Wright, received the message. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Some short time after my sister Sophia's marriage she received from Lord Deerhurst, half a year of the annuity he had made her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He received the communication with perfect calmness, and acquiesced in its propriety. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The giant, steam, demanded and received the obeisance of every art before devoting his inexhaustible strength to their service. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- My dear Miss Summerson, said Richard in a whisper, I have ten pounds that I received from Mr. Kenge. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I asked first if Sir Percival was at the Park, and receiving a reply in the negative, inquired next when he had left it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Burnside had moved promptly on the 4th, on receiving word that the Army of the Potomac had safely crossed the Rapidan. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I shall have the greatest pleasure in receiving him in a lower room. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Receiving this reply, Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite did, what all animals (human and otherwise) do, when they find themselves caught in a trap. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He looked with smiling penetration; and, on receiving no answer, added, _She_ ought not to be angry with you, I suspect, whatever he may be. Jane Austen. Emma.
- When it arrives at the lower end, the material has been burned, and the clinker drops out into a receiving chamber below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They were then carried through the receiving armature and reproduced on the receiving diaphragm, with all the same characteristics of pitch, loudness and quality. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A young man naturally conceives an aversion to labour, when for a long time he receives no benefit from it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Yes, he said, these intimations which the soul receives are very curious and require to be explained. Plato. The Republic.
- It receives the waters of the lesser sea above it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- A photograph at _a_ receives four times as much light as when held at _b_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Sir Leicester receives the gout as a troublesome demon, but still a demon of the patrician order. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The price which he pays must always be the same, whatever may be the quantity of goods which he receives in return for it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This machine, see Fig. 168, receives the dough at A, where it is coated with flour and flattened into a sheet between rolls. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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