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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Receive \Re*ceive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Received}; p. pr & vb n. {Receiving}.] [OF. receiver, recevoir F. recevoir fr L. recipere pref. re- re- + capere to take seize. See See {Capable}, {Heave}, and cf {Receipt}, {Reception}, {Recipe}.] 1. 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. Receyven all in gree that God us sent. --Chaucer. 2. 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. Our hearts receive your warnings. --Shak. The idea of solidity we receives by our touch. --Locke. 3. To allow as a custom, tradition, or the like to give credence or acceptance to Many other things there be which they have received to hold as the washing of cups, and pots. --Mark vii. 4. 4. 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 They kindled a fire, and received us every one --Acts xxviii. 2. 5. To admit to take in to hold to contain; to have capacity fro; to be able to take in The brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings. --1 Kings viii. 64. 6. 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. Against his will he can receive no harm. --Milton. 7. To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen. 8. (Lawn Tennis) To bat back (the ball) when served. {Receiving ship}, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn: To accept take allow hold retain; admit Usage: {Receive}, {Accept}. To receive describes simply the act of taking. To accept denotes the taking with approval, or for the purposes for which a thing is offered. Thus we receive a letter when it comes to hand; we receive news when it reaches us we accept a present when it is offered; we accept an invitation to dine with a friend. Who if we knew What we receive, would either not accept Life offered, or soon beg to lay it down --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Receive \Re*ceive"\, v. i. 1. To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as she receives on Tuesdays. 2. (Lawn Tennis) To return, or bat back the ball when served; as it is your turn to receive. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: receive v 1: get something come into possession of "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front" [syn: {have}] 2: 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" [syn: {get}, {find}, {obtain}, {incur}] 3: of perceptual input: receive a signal, receive news receive a verdict, etc [syn: {pick up}] 4: of mental or bodily states or experiences: "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn: {experience}, {have}, {get}, {undergo}] 5: express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees" [syn: {take in}, {invite}] 6: accept as true or valid; "He received Christ" 7: bid welcome to greet upon arrival [syn: {welcome}] [ant: {say farewell}] 8: convert into sounds or pictures, of incoming radio signals 9: experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition" [syn: {meet}, {encounter}] 10: have or give give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning" 11: receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison" [syn: {get}] 12: partake of the Eucharist, in a Christian church
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