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receiving |
2 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: receiving n : the act of receiving [syn: {reception}, {receipt}]
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