 receive |
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| 1. | [ verb ] get something; come into possession of | |
| Synonyms: | have | |
| Examples: | "receive payment" "receive a gift" "receive letters from the front" |
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| Related terms: | get graduate take_in accept inherit fence accept reception accept | |
| 2. | [ verb ] receive a specified treatment (abstract) | |
| Synonyms: | get obtain find incur | |
| Examples: | "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" |
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| Related terms: | change take get | |
| 3. | [ verb ] of perceptual input: receive a signal, receive news, receive a verdict, etc. | |
| Synonyms: | pick_up | |
| Related terms: | perceive hear receiver | |
| 4. | [ verb ] of mental or physical states or experiences | |
| Synonyms: | have get undergo experience | |
| Examples: | : "get an idea" "experience vertigo" "get nauseous" "undergo a strange sensation" "The chemical undergoes a sudden change" "The fluid undergoes shear" "receive injuries" "have a feeling" |
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| Related terms: | take suffer respire labor horripilate experience perceive | |
| 5. | [ verb ] express willingness to have in one's home or environs | |
| Synonyms: | take_in invite | |
| Examples: | "The community warmly received the refugees" |
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| Related terms: | see welcome absorb induct assume invitation | |
| 6. | [ verb ] accept as true or valid | |
| Examples: | "He received Christ" |
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| Related terms: | accept | |
| 7. | [ verb ] convert into sounds or pictures, of incoming radio signals | |
| Related terms: | convert receiver | |
| 8. | [ verb ] bid welcome to; greet upon arrival | |
| Synonyms: | welcome | |
| Related terms: | say_farewell greet greeter | |
| 9. | [ verb ] experience as a reaction | |
| Synonyms: | meet encounter | |
| Examples: | "My proposal met with much opposition" |
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| Related terms: | have | |
| 10. | [ verb ] have or give a reception | |
| Examples: | "The lady is receiving Sunday morning" |
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| Related terms: | celebrate reception | |
| 11. | [ verb ] receive as a retribution or punishment | |
| Synonyms: | get | |
| Examples: | "He got 5 years in prison" |
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| Related terms: | catch | |
| 12. | [ verb ] regard favorably or with disapproval | |
| Examples: | "Her new collection of poems was not well received" |
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| Related terms: | see | |
| 13. | [ verb ] partake of the Eucharist, in a Christian church | |
| Related terms: | partake Christianity | |
