receive

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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  get , meet , encounter , welcome , take in , invite , experience , have , pick up , find , obtain , incur