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What (who) is receive - definition
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Receive; Receivers; Reciever; Recieve; Receiver (disambiguation); Receive (disambiguation); Receivsr; Receiver (song)
Receive
·vt To bat back (the ball) when served.
II. Receive ·vt To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.
III. Receive ·vi To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.
IV. Receive ·vt To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.
V. Receive ·vi To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.
VI. Receive ·vt To Admit; to take in; to Hold; to Contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.
VII. Receive ·vt 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.
VIII. Receive ·vt 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.
IX. Receive ·vt 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.
X. Receive ·vt 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.
receive
v. a.
1.
Take, accept, derive, obtain, acquire, get.
2.
Admit, take in.
3.
Entertain, welcome, greet.
4.
Allow, permit, tolerate.
5.
Believe, embrace, give credence to.
6.
Hold, contain, have capacity for, retain, admit.
7.
Suffer.
receive
¦ verb
1. be given, presented with, or paid.
take delivery of.
consent to hear (an oath or confession).
buy or accept (goods known to be stolen).
2. suffer, experience, or be subject to.
respond to in a specified way: her first novel was well received.
meet with (a specified reaction).
[as adjective received] widely accepted as authoritative or true.
3. form (an idea or impression) from an experience.
4. greet or welcome formally.
be visited by.
admit as a member.
5. detect or pick up (broadcast signals).
6. serve as a receptacle for.
7. (in tennis and similar games) be the player to whom the server serves (the ball).
Phrases
be at (or on) the receiving end informal be subjected to something unpleasant.
Origin
ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. receivre, based on L. recipere, from re- 'back' + capere 'take'.
Examples of use of receive
1. Six soldiers will receive the Medal of Valor, 12 will receive the Distinguished Service Medal and 17 will receive Citations.
2. If you receive an alternative flight within this time frame, you will not receive additional compensation.
3. Advertisement Six soldiers will receive Medals of Courage, 12 will receive Medals of Distinguished Service and 20 will receive Medals of Appreciation.
4. When playing "Spore," users will be given three choices regarding people‘s creations: to receive no outside content, to receive content from buddies only, or receive all external content.
5. Those placed first in the category will receive AED3,000, those ranked second will receive AED2,000, and those placed third will receive AED1,000.