receive
/ri'si:v/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To take or accept something that is given, sent, or communicated: The most common meaning, involving the act of getting something from someone else.
- To experience or be subjected to something: To be the one to whom an action, feeling, or event happens.
- To formally welcome or greet a guest or visitor: To act as a host to someone who arrives.
- To react to something in a particular way: To regard or respond to something favorably or unfavorably.
- To convert incoming signals into sound or pictures: A technical meaning related to electronics and communication.
Examples of Usage
- To take or accept something:
- Did you receive my email?
- She received a beautiful gift for her birthday.
- To experience or be subjected to:
- He received a serious injury in the accident.
- The plan received strong criticism from the public.
- To formally welcome a guest:
- The ambassador will receive the delegates at the embassy.
- To react to something:
- The new policy was poorly received by the staff.
- To convert signals:
- The radio cannot receive signals in this valley.
Advanced Usage
- "to receive someone into something": To formally accept someone as a member of a group or organization.
- She was received into the church as a full member.
- "to receive communion": To participate in the Christian sacrament of the Eucharist.
- The congregation went forward to receive communion.
Variants and Related Words
- Receiver (n):
- A person or thing that receives something.
- The receiver of the award gave a heartfelt speech.
- The part of a telephone that is held to the ear.
- A piece of electronic equipment that receives broadcast signals.
- Receipt (n): A written acknowledgment that something has been received, especially a payment.
- Please keep your receipt as proof of purchase.
- Reception (n):
- The act of receiving.
- The reception of the news was mixed.
- A formal social event to welcome guests.
- A wedding reception will follow the ceremony.
- The quality of a broadcast signal.
- The radio reception is terrible in the mountains.
Synonyms
- Get: To come into possession of.
- Obtain: To acquire something, often through effort.
- Accept: To take or receive something offered.
- Incur: To become subject to (something unwelcome, like a penalty).
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Receive back: To get something returned to you.
- He received his manuscript back from the publisher with suggested edits.
Related Idioms
- On the receiving end: To be the person who is affected by an action, typically an unpleasant one.
- He found himself on the receiving end of their anger.
- Receive with open arms: To welcome someone or something very warmly and enthusiastically.
- The community received the refugees with open arms.
Verb
- regard favorably or with disapproval
- Her new collection of poems was not well received
- partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- He got 5 years in prison
- have or give a reception
- The lady is receiving Sunday morning
- experience as a reaction
- My proposal met with much opposition
- convert into sounds or pictures
- receive the incoming radio signals
- bid welcome to; greet upon arrival
- accept as true or valid
- He received Christ
- express willingness to have in one's home or environs
- The community warmly received the refugees
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- get an idea
- experience vertigo
- get nauseous
- receive injuries
- have a feeling
- register (perceptual input)
- pick up a signal
- 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
- get something; come into possession of
- receive payment
- receive a gift
- receive letters from the front