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Receive

//ɹɪˈsiːv// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An operation in which data is received.

    "In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a wide pitch range, and sends and receives are relatively balanced; although in the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To be given, sent, or paid something. transitive

    "He received many presents for his birthday."

  2. 2
    convert into sounds or pictures wordnet
  3. 3
    To take, as something that is offered; to accept. dated, transitive

    "He had the offer of employment, but he would not receive it."

  4. 4
    receive a specified treatment (abstract) wordnet
  5. 5
    To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
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  1. 6
    regard favorably or with disapproval wordnet
  2. 7
    To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc. transitive

    "to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc."

  3. 8
    accept as true or valid wordnet
  4. 9
    To incur (an injury). transitive

    "I received a bloody nose from the collision."

  5. 10
    bid welcome to; greet upon arrival wordnet
  6. 11
    To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.

    "For the Phariſes and all the Jewes, except they waſh their hands oft, eate not, holding the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the market, except they waſh, they eate not. And many other things there be, which they have receiued to hold, as the waſhing of cups and pots, braſen veſſels, and of tables."

  7. 12
    partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament wordnet
  8. 13
    To detect a signal from a transmitter.
  9. 14
    express willingness to have in one's home or environs wordnet
  10. 15
    To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.; To be in a position to hit back a service.
  11. 16
    register (perceptual input) wordnet
  12. 17
    To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.; To be in a position to catch a forward pass.
  13. 18
    go through (mental or physical states or experiences) wordnet
  14. 19
    To accept into the mind; to understand. intransitive, transitive

    "I cannot receive [translating recevoir] that manner, whereby we establish the continuance of our life."

  15. 20
    receive as a retribution or punishment wordnet
  16. 21
    get something; come into possession of wordnet
  17. 22
    have or give a reception wordnet
  18. 23
    experience as a reaction wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English receyven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere (“take back, accept, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”); see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native Middle English terms in -fon/-fangen (e.g. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from Old English -fōn), native Middle English thiggen (“to receive”) (from Old English þiċġan), and non-native Middle English aquilen, enquilen (“to receive”) (from Old French aquillir, encueillir).

Etymology 2

From Middle English receyven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere (“take back, accept, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”); see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native Middle English terms in -fon/-fangen (e.g. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from Old English -fōn), native Middle English thiggen (“to receive”) (from Old English þiċġan), and non-native Middle English aquilen, enquilen (“to receive”) (from Old French aquillir, encueillir).

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